OpenAI President Greg Brockman has detailed the upcoming AI model from the ChatGPT maker called ‘Spud’. Brockman called it the culmination of nearly two years of research from the company and a key step towards pushing for artificial general intelligence (AGI). According to him, Spud will represent a new base model for ChatGPT and serve as the foundation on which future models will be built rather than being just an incremental upgrade.

“I think of Spud as a new base (model), as a new pre-train… we have maybe two years’ worth of research that is coming to fruition in this model,” Brockman said.

During his recent podcast appearance, Brockman not only confirmed the existence of Spud but stopped just short of detailing benchmarks or release timelines for the model. Brockman noted that Spud has a ‘big model feel’ and will deliver noticeable improvements in capability and usability.

The OpenAI President said, “I think it's going to be able to solve both much harder problems. I think it will be much more nuanced. It'll understand instructions better. It'll understand the context much better. There’s this thing called big model smell that people talk about, where it's just like there's something about when these models are actually much smarter, much more capable, that they bend to you much more.”

“There will just be new things where you would be frustrated before, you would never use an AI for it, and now you just use it without thinking very much. I think that is what we're going to see across the board. I'm super excited to see how it raises the ceiling,” Brockman added.