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36 minutes ago
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GPT-5: Here's What's New in ChatGPT's Big Update
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Here's a breakdown: Free users: You'll get access to GPT-5 up to a usage cap, after which you'll have a lighter GPT-5-mini model. You'll get access to GPT-5 up to a usage cap, after which you'll have a lighter GPT-5-mini model. Plus users: Similar to free users, but with higher usage limits. Similar to free users, but with higher usage limits. Pro users: Unlimited access to GPT-5 and access to a more powerful GPT-5 Pro model. Unlimited access to GPT-5 and access to a more powerful GPT-5 Pro model. Enterprise/EDU/Team users: GPT-5 will be the default model, although it may be next week before it's rolled out for everyone. GPT-5 itself is really a couple of different models. There's a fast but fairly straightforward LLM and a more robust reasoning model for handling more complex questions. A routing program identifies which model can best handle the prompt. Even faster coding skills OpenAI particularly highlighted the skills and speed at which the new model can write code. This isn't just a function for programmers. The model's ability to write a program makes it easier for it to solve a problem you present to it by creating the right tool. Yann Dubois, a post-training lead at OpenAI, showed off the model's coding ability by asking it to create an app for learning French. Within minutes, it had coded a web application complete with sound and working game functions. Dubois actually asked it to create two different apps, running the same prompt through the model twice. The speed at which GPT-5 writes code allows you to try multiple times and pick the result you like best -- or provide feedback to make changes until you get it right. "The beauty is that you can iterate super quickly with GPT-5 to make the changes that you want," Dubois said. "GPT-5 really opens a whole new world of vibe coding." 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You won't have to -- and you may not want to, depending on how you feel about sharing your private info -- but you can enable them so it automatically pulls info from them you don't need to share before asking it something. These connectors will start for Pro users next week, with other tiers gaining access thereafter. But is this really the way to AGI? Altman told reporters the model is a "significant step along the path to AGI," or artificial general intelligence, a term that often refers to models that are as smart and capable as a human. But Altman also said it's definitely not there yet. One big reason is that it's still not learning continuously while it's deployed. OpenAI's stated goal is to try to develop AGI (although Altman said he's not a big fan of the term), and it's got competition. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been recruiting top AI scientists with the goal of creating "superintelligence." Whether large language models are the way there, nobody knows right now. Three-quarters of AI experts surveyed earlier this year said they had doubts LLMs would scale up to create something of that level of intelligence.
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