Recently, OpenAI's CEO Sam Altman posted a photo of strawberries on his personal social platform, which has attracted widespread attention.

On Wednesday (August 7th), Altman posted on X, saying, "I love the summer in the garden," accompanied by two strawberry plants bearing fruit.

The strawberries are reminiscent of a previously exposed project named "Strawberry" by the OpenAI team. The predecessor of this project was named Q*.

Does This Foreshadow the Announcement of GPT-5?

Looking at the comments of Altman's latest post, netizens are also very imaginative. A netizen, named Looxiz, wrote, "Five strawberries, but the fifth is not ripe yet, GPT-5 confirmed within 4-6 weeks (Fruits is typically ready for harvesting 4-6 weeks after blossoming)."

Artificial intelligence educator Dogan Ural commented, "It's happening!"

Altera co-founder Nico Christie wrote, "Why can't you speak plainly man."

Altman himself did not confirm or deny any of the comments, only confirming that the photo was taken in his real-life garden, not generated by artificial intelligence.

OpenAI's "Strawberry" Project Was Previously Exposed, Insiders Once Warned: It May Threaten All of Humanity

According to insiders and internal documents reviewed by the media, ChatGPT's developer OpenAI is developing a new artificial intelligence model in a project codenamed "Strawberry." The details of this project have never been reported before, and the company is currently striving to demonstrate that the types of models it provides can offer advanced inferential capabilities. This insider said that even within OpenAI, the working principle of "Strawberry" is a top-secret information.

The insider also revealed that the internal document described a project using the Strawberry model, with the aim of making the company's artificial intelligence not only capable of generating answers to queries but also capable of making sufficient plans in advance, autonomously and reliably navigating the internet to perform what OpenAI calls "in-depth research."

According to a previous report by the Securities Times, when asked about the details of the "Strawberry" model, an OpenAI spokesperson said in a statement, "We hope our AI models can view and understand the world as we do. Continuous research on new AI capabilities is a common practice in the industry, and everyone believes that the reasoning capabilities of these systems will improve over time." However, the spokesperson did not directly answer questions about the new model.

Although the spokesperson did not directly answer questions about Strawberry, the media said that the Strawberry project was previously called Q*. And Q* was the fuse of the sudden dismissal of OpenAI's CEO last year.

In November last year, the media reported that the OpenAI project codenamed Q* achieved a major breakthrough, greatly accelerating the pace of realizing general artificial intelligence (AGI) for humanity. However, OpenAI CEO Altman may not have disclosed the progress of Q* in detail to the board of directors, which was one of the reasons the board suddenly dismissed Altman. An insider at OpenAI wrote to the board of directors to warn that the findings of Q* may threaten all of humanity.**

The media said that Q* may have basic mathematical capabilities that GPT-4 does not have, which may mean reasoning capabilities comparable to human intelligence, and netizens speculate that this may represent a significant step towards OpenAI's goal of AGI.

A document exposed in March this year showed that OpenAI plans to develop AGI at the human level before 2027. OpenAI began training a multimodal model with 1.25 trillion parameters in 2022, which was named Arrakis or Q*, originally planned to be released as GPT-5 in 2025, but was canceled due to high reasoning costs. OpenAI then planned to release Q 2025 (GPT-8) in 2027 to achieve complete AGI.