Reports emerged over the last few days on X from AI influencers, including OpenAI’s own researcher “Roon (@tszzl on X)” (speculated to be technical team member Tarun Gogineni) — of a new “router” function that will automatically select the best OpenAI model to respond to the user’s input on the fly, depending on the specific input’s content. Similarly, Yuchen Jin, Co-founder & CTO of AI inference cloud provider Hyperbolic Labs, wrote in an X post, “Heard GPT-5 is imminent, from a little bird. It’s not one model, but multiple models. It has a router that switches between reasoning, non-reasoning, and tool-using models. That’s why Sam said they’d “fix model naming”: prompts will just auto-route to the right model. GPT-6 is in training.” While a presumably far more advanced GPT-5 model would (and will) be huge news if and when released, the router may make life much easier and more intelligent for the average ChatGPT subscriber. It would also follow on the heels of other third-party products such as the web-based Token Monster chatbot, which automatically select and combine responses from multiple third-party LLMs to respond to user queries. Hopefully any hypothetical OpenAI router seamlessly helps direct them to the right model product for their needs, when they need it.