OpenAI launched GPT-5 during a live-stream, claiming it improves reasoning, writing, and accuracy. However, users expressed frustration over losing access to previous models, reporting shorter responses and less personality,

Expectations are high for the newest version of OpenAI’s flagship model because the San Francisco company has long positioned its technical advancements as a path toward artificial general intelligence, or AGI, a technology that is supposed to surpass humans at economically valuable work.

At long last, GPT-5 has arrived — and it's free to all ChatGPT users.