While OpenAI CEO Sam Altman acknowledged recently that GPT-4.5 will launch within a matter of weeks, I understand that Microsoft is expecting to host the new AI model as early as next week.

The new model not only matches the capabilities of OpenAI’s GPT-4o, it surpasses DeepSeek’s v3 model across critical benchmarks. This isn’t the first time the Ai2 has made bold claims about ...