WATCH | OpenAI launches GPT-5 after two-year wait, promises major leaps in reasoning

San Francisco: OpenAI has released GPT-5, the fifth generation of the artificial intelligence technology powering ChatGPT, marking a major milestone in AI development after more than two years since GPT-4. This latest model is hailed as OpenAI’s smartest, fastest, and most useful yet, bringing notable improvements in coding, reasoning, speed, accuracy, and problem-solving abilities. Early feedback from users highlights GPT-5's advanced capabilities in handling complex tasks and scientific challenges, with a unified reasoning architecture that automatically selects the best reasoning approach for each query, enhancing user experience and convenience.

While GPT-5 builds on the strengths of GPT-4, the upgrade is seen as more evolutionary than revolutionary, addressing limitations such as hallucinations and context continuity with an expanded context window and advanced multimodal functionalities including text, audio, and video processing. OpenAI's CEO, Sam Altman, described GPT-5 as akin to having an "entire team of Ph.D.-level experts at your fingertips," signalling a major step toward artificial general intelligence (AGI).

In parallel with this technological advance, OpenAI is undergoing significant corporate restructuring, shifting from its original nonprofit roots to becoming a public benefit corporation. This change aims to better align with investor expectations and the commercial rollout of AI products, while balancing the company’s mission to develop AI that benefits everyone.

GPT-5 is already available to users via ChatGPT, with enhanced features accessible to paid subscribers, and integration into the OpenAI API for enterprise applications. Despite hype and lofty expectations, OpenAI has cautioned that full realisation of GPT-5’s capabilities, including a “gold level” of performance, may take several months after launch. The release of GPT-5 is part of a broader effort by OpenAI to consolidate its models and push the boundaries of AI’s role in work, creativity, and complex problem-solving across industries.

This launch arrives amid a competitive AI landscape, with rivals like Anthropic also releasing new models, and underlines OpenAI’s ambition to lead in the quest for ever more capable, reliable, and ethical AI systems.

With inputs from AP