OpenAI has unveiled ChatGPT-5, its most advanced AI model to date and it\u2019s now freely available to users worldwide, as the race to dominate the artificial intelligence landscape continues to intensify. The new version, already attracting hundreds of millions of users weekly, is earning praise for its enhanced speed, improved intelligence, and broader capabilities across various tasks. OpenAI Co-founder and CEO Sam Altman described the experience of using ChatGPT-5 as \u201clike talking to a real expert,\u201d adding that the model is \u201cclearly a step closer to general intelligence.\u201d While the model hasn\u2019t yet achieved human-like reasoning, Altman believes it marks significant progress in that direction. The release comes amid fierce competition among tech giants striving to lead the rapidly evolving AI space. According to OpenAI, ChatGPT-5 is being used by nearly 700 million people each week and is now being rolled out globally at no cost to users. Altman, however, emphasized that more development is needed to reach true artificial general intelligence (AGI) \u2014 AI capable of human-like thought. \u201cThis version doesn\u2019t learn continuously from real-time interactions \u2014 and to me, that\u2019s a core part of what AGI should be,\u201d he said during a media briefing.\u201cBut the level of capability here is a huge improvement.\u201d Industry experts have hailed the beginning of a new AI era \u2014 one in which intelligent machines change the way people live and work. \u201cAs the pace of AI progress accelerates, developing superintelligence is coming into sight,\u201d wrote Meta chief executive Mark Zuckerberg in a recent internal memo. \u201cI believe this will be the beginning of a new era for humanity.\u201d Altman said there were \u201corders of magnitude more gains\u201d still to come on the road to AGI. \u201cObviously… you have to invest in compute power at an eye-watering rate to get there, but we intend to keep doing it,\u201d he said. Tech giants such as Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, and Elon Musk\u2019s xAI have been investing billions of dollars into AI research and development since the launch of the first ChatGPT model in late 2022. Earlier this year, Chinese start-up DeepSeek surprised the AI sector by releasing a powerful model that delivers high performance using more affordable chips. PhD-level expert With fierce global competition in the AI space, Altman claimed that ChatGPT-5 is now leading the field in areas like coding, writing, healthcare and more. \u201cGPT-3 felt like talking to a secondary school student \u2014 ask a question, you might get a correct answer or something completely off,\u201d Altman said. \u201cGPT-4 was more like speaking to a university student. GPT-5 is the first time it really feels like you\u2019re chatting with a PhD-level expert on any topic.\u201d Altman believes that \u201cvibe-coding\u201d \u2014 the ability to build software through natural conversation \u2014 will become a defining feature of the ChatGPT-5 era. British AI expert Simon Willison, who had early access to the model, wrote in a blog post: \u201cMy verdict: it\u2019s just good at stuff. It doesn\u2019t feel like a dramatic leap forward, but it rarely messes up \u2014 and often impresses.\u201d However, Elon Musk claimed on X (formerly Twitter) that his own AI model, Grok 4 Heavy, was \u201csmarter\u201d than ChatGPT-5. Honest AI? According to OpenAI\u2019s safety research lead Alex Beutel, ChatGPT-5 has been trained to be trustworthy and avoid aiding any harmful tasks. \u201cWe built evaluations to measure how often it may deceive, and trained the model to be honest,\u201d Beutel said. The model is designed to produce \u201csafe completions\u201d \u2014 responses that avoid sharing sensitive or potentially dangerous information, he added. Also this week, OpenAI launched two new AI models that are freely available to download and customise, in a move aimed at challenging similar offerings from competitors. The release of these \u201copen-weight language models\u201d comes as the company faces growing calls to be more transparent, in line with its original mission as a non-profit organisation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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