ChatGPT 5 release date: what we know about OpenAI's next chatbot
OpenAI is reportedly gearing up to release a more powerful version of ChatGPT in the coming months. The new AI model, known as GPT-5, is slated to arrive as soon as this summer, according to two sources in the know who spoke to Business Insider.
Upgraded Capabilities
Ahead of its launch, some businesses have reportedly tried out a demo of the tool, allowing them to test out its upgraded abilities. GPT-5 is the follow-up to GPT-4, OpenAI’s fourth-generation chatbot that you have to pay a monthly fee to use.
GPT stands for generative pre-trained transformer, which is an AI engine built and refined by OpenAI to power the different versions of ChatGPT. Like the processor inside your computer, each new edition of the chatbot runs on a brand new GPT with more capabilities.
Enhancements in GPT-5
In the case of GPT-4, the AI chatbot can provide human-like responses, and even recognize and generate images and speech. Its successor, GPT-5, will reportedly offer better personalization, make fewer mistakes, and handle more types of content, eventually including video.
Others such as Google and Meta have released their own GPTs with their own names, all of which are known collectively as large language models. Based on the human brain, these AI systems have the ability to generate text as part of a conversation.
Training and Development
The latest report claims OpenAI has begun training GPT-5 as it preps for the AI model’s release in the middle of this year. Once its training is complete, the system will go through multiple stages of safety testing, according to Business Insider.
As part of this process, the bot will be “red teamed,” a technique that involves internal and external testers putting it through its paces and providing feedback on its strengths and weaknesses.
In November, he made its existence public, telling the Financial Times that OpenAI was working on GPT-5, although he stopped short of revealing its release date.
AI Advancements
In February, the OpenAI chief spoke about GPT-5 at the World Governments Summit in Dubai. He said the next version of ChatGPT is going to be smarter than its predecessors, requiring more data to train on.
Speaking on Bill Gates' Unconfuse Me podcast in mid-January, Mr. Altman said: "Multimodality will definitely be important. Which means speech in, speech out. Images. Eventually, video."
For his part, Mr. Altman confirmed that his company was working on GPT-5 on at least two separate occasions last autumn. The first of those was during a talk at his former venture capital firm Y Combinator’s alumni reunion last September, according to two people who attended the event.
Improvements Over GPT-4
How can GPT-5 beat GPT-4? Chiefly, it will need to outdo GPT-4 Turbo, the next-generation model that OpenAI released in November to paying subscribers.
The company’s most advanced AI chatbot has knowledge of world events up to April 2023, compared with 2021 for GPT-4; it can analyze even longer prompts of up to 128,000 tokens or roughly the length of a 300-page book; it's better at following instructions; and it can automatically switch between tools based on user requests.
Both OpenAI and several researchers have also tested the chatbot on real-life exams. GPT-4 was shown as having a decent chance of passing the chartered financial analyst (CFA) exam.
At the time of writing, OpenAI hasn’t announced a launch date for GPT-5, but it's clear that significant progress is being made in the field of AI.
