OpenAI’s ChatGPT-5 could drop in the coming days, and it could be one of the best models from the Microsoft-backed startup.
As The Verge’s Tom Warren first reported, GPT-5 is being prepared for an August release.
GPT-5 is believed to be the “unified” model, which means it combines the breakthroughs from the reasoning and multi-modal models, such as o3 and 4o respectively.
ChatGPT currently has too many capable models for different tasks. While the models are powerful, it can be confusing because all models have identical names.
OpenAI maintains an “o” lineup for reasoning capabilities, while the 4o and other models have multi-modality.
With GPT-5, OpenAI plans to unify the breakthrough in its lineup and deliver the best of the two worlds.
“We’re truly excited to not just make a net new great frontier model, we’re also going to unify our two series,” says Romain Huet, OpenAI’s Head of Developer Experience.
“The breakthrough of reasoning in the O-series and the breakthroughs in multi-modality in the GPT-series will be unified, and that will be GPT-5. And I really hope I’ll come back soon to tell you more about it.”
OpenAI previously claimed that GPT-5 will also make the existing models significantly better at everything.
“GPT-5 is our next foundational model that is meant to just make everything our models can currently do better and with less model switching,” Jerry Tworek, who is a VP at OpenAI, wrote in a Reddit post.
GPT-5 drops in the next few weeks
OpenAI might use “routing” initially, which means GPT-5 might call a reasoning model in the background when it feels the query could be best handled with “deeper thinking.”
Details of how exactly GPT-5 works are unclear, but we’ll likely learn more about it soon.
My sources tell me that GPT-5 could drop in the coming days, likely in the first week of August, but since we’re talking about OpenAI, remember that plans are always subject to change.
Microsoft is already testing internal builds of Copilot and Microsoft 365 Copilot with GPT-5.
Microsoft Azure is also preparing for GPT-5 integration.
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