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OpenAI Announces GPT-5, Elevating ChatGPT To PhD-Level Performance

GLOBAL, AUG 8 – OpenAI’s GPT-5 offers enhanced reasoning and accuracy, enabling 700 million users to access near-PhD expertise while emphasizing human oversight remains essential.

  • OpenAI unveiled GPT-5, its latest AI chatbot model, on August 9, 2025, presenting it as a significant advancement in intelligence and reasoning.
  • The release follows nearly three years since ChatGPT introduced generative AI, with GPT-5 trained to be more honest and provide more accurate responses.
  • GPT-5 demonstrates improved capabilities such as coding complex software, visual problem-solving, and assisting with educational and medical inquiries, though it can still produce errors like flawed state listings.
  • Sam Altman described GPT-5 as the most powerful reasoning model to date, likening it to conversing with a PhD-level expert, while ethicists stress it mimics rather than truly understands human reasoning.
  • GPT-5’s release could reshape knowledge access and professional tasks, yet experts caution that human intuition and critical thinking remain essential, and regulation must evolve to address AI’s impact.
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OpenAI has launched ChatGPT-5, a more reliable, customizable and transparent version of its flagship IA. New functions, conversational styles of choice, expanded integrations... this model aims to mark a step towards...

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maginative.com broke the news in on Thursday, August 7, 2025.
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