Sam Altman teases that OpenAI is announcing 'new stuff' on Monday that 'feels like magic'

• Sam Altman teased that OpenAI planned to announce "new stuff" on Monday that "feels like magic."

• OpenAI's CEO also shot down the idea that it would show GPT-5 or a search engine at the event.

• The startup may still release a ChatGPT search feature in the future, as reports have indicated.

OpenAI is announcing new updates to ChatGPT and GPT-4 — and Sam Altman says they feel "like magic."

The OpenAI CEO posted on X, formerly Twitter, on Friday to tease the "new stuff" being announced soon. He said that while it wasn't a search engine or GPT-5, it was something "people will love."

OpenAI didn't respond to a request for comment ahead of publication.

Altman may have shot down rumors that OpenAI would announce a search engine at the demo on Monday, but he didn't deny that OpenAI was working on a search product.

Reports have been swirling about OpenAI taking aim at Google's search engine with its own web search product in the works. The search product might be powered by Microsoft's Bing, The Information reported.

Bloomberg reported that the product would be able to search the web and provide sources in its results and that a version of the search feature would also use images, such as diagrams or other relevant illustrations, as responses to inquiries.

Sources told The Verge that OpenAI had even tried to poach some Googlers to help develop a search engine.

As for GPT-5, OpenAI's much-hyped successor to its GPT-4 large language model, Business Insider previously reported that its release was expected this year, probably around the summertime.

Those in the artificial-intelligence community may also be watching carefully on Monday to see whether OpenAI shares any additional information about Ilya Sutskever, the company's chief data scientist, who's become practically invisible at the company since the ousting and return of Altman as CEO.

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