OpenAI launched the latest version of the technology behind its ChatGPT bot, introducing GPT-5, described as its “smartest, fastest,” and “most useful” AI model yet. The release of GPT-5 is highly anticipated, coinciding with ChatGPT nearing 700 million weekly active users. This launch occurs amid a competitive race among OpenAI, Google, xAI, Meta, and Anthropic as they strive to surpass each other on benchmark metrics with new AI models.
GPT-5 is aimed at both retail and business sectors, with a blog post highlighting its potential for transforming business operations and attracting enterprise clients. Based in San Francisco, OpenAI claims GPT-5 offers enhanced reliability and accuracy over previous models, with fewer instances of hallucinations. The model promises more precise answers than its predecessors in AI reasoning and showcases improved writing and health-related query responses.
OpenAI describes GPT-5 as achieving significant advancements in accuracy, speed, reasoning, context recognition, structured thinking, and problem-solving. It also emphasizes GPT-5’s superior coding abilities, positioning it as their “strongest coding model yet” to challenge Anthropic’s popular Claude model among coders. GPT-5’s user-friendly coding features allow users to create “beautiful” and “functional” websites without coding expertise and can power AI agents.
Additional features include advanced voice recognition for improved instruction comprehension and the option for users to customize chat colors. GPT-5’s launch follows OpenAI’s recent release of two “open-weight” models to compete with Meta’s Llama and Chinese models. GPT-5 is available with both free and paid options. The announcement of GPT-5 included endorsements from companies like Uber, Salesforce, and Moderna.