OpenAIs GPT models are the AI technology that powers the popular ChatGPT chatbot, and GPT-5 will be available to all 700 million ChatGPT users, OpenAI said.
The big question is whether the company that kicked off the generative AI frenzy will be capable of continuing to drive significant technological advancements that attract enterprise-level users to justify the enormous sums of money it is investing to fuel these developments.
The release comes at a critical time for the AI industry. The worlds biggest AI developers Google, Meta, Amazon and Microsoft, which backs OpenAI have dramatically increased capital spending to pay for AI data centres, nourishing investor hopes for great returns. These four companies expect to spend nearly US400-billion this fiscal year in total.
OpenAI is now in early discussions to allow employees to cash out at a 500-billion valuation, a huge step up from its current 300-billion valuation. Top AI researchers now command 100-million signing bonuses.
GPT-5 is really the first time that I think one of our mainline models has felt like you can ask a legitimate expert, a PhD-level expert, anything, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said at a press briefing. One of the coolest things it can do is write you good instantaneous software. This idea of software on demand is going to be one of the defining features of the GPT-5 era.