The biggest developers’ conference is coming up and it’s not from Apple, Microsoft, Meta, or Google, it’s OpenAI DevDay, the first-ever conference from the company. The one-day event, on November 6, will have a keynote address and breakout sessions led by the team of OpenAI technical staff, and a lot of announcements are awaited.

But what exactly is left to announce?

Lately, OpenAI has been making a slew of announcements, mostly focused on developers. GPT-4V(ision), UI for fine-tuning, release of GPT 3.5 Turbo Instruct, and it even made ChatGPT browse with Bing feature available again. Besides, chief Sam Altman clearly stating that there would be no announcements of GPT-5 leaves them with very little left to announce.

What to expect?

“Alright, who’s LLM do I need to RLHF to get an in-person invite to OpenAI DevDay (sic),” quipped Gred Kamaradt on X. It is that difficult to get an invite to the conference. If you are lucky to be approved, you would still need $450 to attend it. Regardless, expectations and predictions are on the way and out loud. 

Before ruling out GPT-5, according to recent rumours, OpenAI seems to be already in the possession of a powerful model named Arrakis. The word around the block is that OpenAI now has AGI, which is still questionable, but Altman went to Reddit to make a joke about it. 

“We’re looking forward to showing our latest work to enable developers to build new things,” Altman said recently. Speculations are rife that there might be a developers’ competition, where OpenAI might select people to hire for their team.

Altman also said that this is an amazing time to join them. The team is increasingly expanding its office and hiring for various roles such as engineer, data scientists, and developers. 

Now, developers have been pushing for a cost reduction on GPT-4, including a session-based API, where developers do not have to send all messages, departing from the current stateless API.

What if OpenAI decides to upgrade all of its models to GPT-4 or even more, and make GPT-3.5 open source? That would be the biggest announcement, giving all the open source models a run for their money.

Venture into hardware

OpenAI is reportedly also now getting into the hardware business. WHOOP recently announced that it is partnering with OpenAI to launch WHOOP Coach, the most advanced generative AI feature to ever be released by a wearable. It is possible that the company might integrate more of its generative AI capabilities into various hardware designs, which might be an ideal step for the company.

According to a recent report, Jony Ive, the renowned designer of the iPhone, and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman have been discussing a new AI hardware. It is highly unlikely that the company would venture into the phone market as it would take years for the company to establish a manufacturing facility to compete with players like Apple in the market.

On the flip side, it is easier for Apple to develop a GPT-4 like LLM and get into OpenAI’s market. 

OpenAI might just want to stick with the software aspect of product development, and integrate its capabilities within other products, just like it did with WHOOP. Since OpenAI is all about keeping it simple and breaking things fast, it might turn to smaller edge use cases like a smart watch or even a smart ring to venture into the field. 

A recent leak from Microsoft is about an “AI bag” which users would be able to use to interact with AI models. This could also be powered by OpenAI’s GPT. But given all the tussles between OpenAI and Microsoft, the Altman led firm might want to start something of its own. 

Furthermore, amidst all the announcements of XR headsets from Apple, Meta, and even Microsoft, it might be possible that OpenAI ventures into this field. It has already developed its GPT-4V(ision), which can be touted as a natural first step for the company to get more into computer vision products. 

Making sense of all the recent acquisitions, OpenAI might even venture into the gaming market. The recent acquisition of Global Illumination, the 3D world designing company, is a hint that OpenAI is going all-in on a metaverse type simulation with AI bots. This can be a step towards getting into the gaming industry. 

All in all, though a lot of predictions for DevDay have already been made, there is a lot that is expected. OpenAI might just announce GPT-5, who knows?