OpenAI has announced GPT-5, the newest release of their artificial intelligence (AI). The launch event has been live streamed. "Today finally we are launching GPT-5," said OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, "a significant step along our path to AGI."
It offers better answers in fields like math, science, finance, and law, making it helpful for quick expert advice on various topics. GPT-5 excels at coding and acts as a partner for writing clear and engaging content. It also gives more useful answers on health topics and aims to be safer and more accurate overall.
Users can see examples of how people use GPT-5 through videos and stories. New features in the related ChatGPT app include making it personal by choosing a personality. Voice improvements mean it better understands spoken instructions and can adjust its speaking style. Study mode provides step-by-step help for learning any subject. Users can connect their Gmail and Google Calendar for more tailored responses based on personal data.
The path to GPT-5 shows how earlier models evolved to reach this point. For developers, GPT-5 is great for coding and agentic tasks, meaning actions where the AI acts like an independent helper. It creates high-quality code, designs user interfaces with little input, and improves personality control, steerability (how well it follows directions), and handling long sequences of tools. It introduces minimal reasoning, a way to think simply, and a verbosity parameter to control detail level in responses.
Features for different users
GPT-5 comes in versions: the main one handles text and vision (understanding images), with a 400K context length, meaning it remembers up to 400,000 words of conversation, and up to 128K output tokens, units of text it can produce. Pricing is $1.25 input and $10 output per million tokens. GPT-5 mini and nano are smaller, cheaper options with similar features but lower costs, like $0.25 input for mini.
Businesses find GPT-5 reliable for work, acting as a trusted expert in writing, research, analysis, coding, and problem-solving. It thinks harder on complex tasks and asks follow-ups. It uses company files from apps like Google Drive while keeping permissions secure. GPT-5 is available now in ChatGPT Team plans, with expansion to Enterprise and Education soon.