This revelation gains credibility when examining OpenAI's track record of developing technologies well before their public release. A notable example is GPT-4, which was completed in August 2022, months before the release of ChatGPT. This means OpenAI had already developed its next-generation model while the public was still marveling at GPT-3.5's capabilities. GPT-4 subsequently maintained its position at the technological frontier for approximately two years before other labs approached similar capabilities.