The startup said its GPT-5 model, the underlying technology that will power its breakthrough AI chatbot, represents a big upgrade on its predecessors in areas such as coding and creative writing — and is also a lot less sycophantic.
It said the upgrade was being made available to all of ChatGPT’s 800 million users immediately.
Sam Altman, OpenAI’s chief executive, called the model a “significant step forward” to achieving the theoretical state of AGI, which the startup defines as a highly autonomous system that outperforms humans at most economically valuable work — or in other words, can do their jobs.
However, Altman admitted GPT-5 has not reached that goal yet. “It is missing something quite important, many things quite important,” said Altman, pointing to the model’s ability to “continuously learn.”
Engadget reported: A couple of days after announcing its first open-weight models in six years, OpenAI is releasing the long-awaited GPT-5. What’s more, you can start using it today, even if you’re a free user.
With GPT-5, the company is touting across-the-board enhancements, claiming the model is best when it comes to coding, writing, safety, accuracy, and more.
“GPT-5 is the first time that it really feels like you’re talking to an expert in any topic,” said OpenAI CEO (and hypeman) Sam Altman during a press briefing the company held before today’s announcement.
“It reminds me of when iPhone went from this giant, old pixel scenes to the Retina display, and then I went back to using one of those big pixilated things and I was like, ‘Wow, I can’t believe how bad we had it.”
At the start of the year, Altman said GPT-5 would offer a unified experience for users, and the new model delivers on that promise. For the first time, OpenAI’s default offering is a reasoning model, meaning the system is programmed to tackle complex problems by breaking them down to smaller parts.
CNBC reported: OpenAI on Thursday announced GPT-5, its latest and most advanced large-scale artificial intelligence model.
The company is making GPT-5 available to everyone, including its free users. OpenAI said the model is smarter, faster and “a lot more useful,” particularly across domains like writing, coding and health care.
“I tried going back to GPT-4, and it was quite miserable,” OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said in a briefing with reporters.
OpenAI’s said GPT-5’s hallucination rate is lower, which means the model fabricates answers less frequently. The company said it also carried out extensive safety evaluations while developing GPT-5, including 5,000 hours of testing.