OpenAI CEO calls report on upcoming AI Orion “Fake News”

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has responded to an exclusive report by The Verge journalists Kylie Robison and Tom Warren, which claimed that the company plans to launch a new frontier AI model codenamed Orion by December, calling it “fake news out of control” on X (formerly Twitter). The report, citing sources familiar with the plan, stated that Orion would initially be granted access to companies working closely with OpenAI to build their own products and features, and that Microsoft engineers are preparing to host Orion on Azure as early as November.