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International Business Times
2 days ago
- Business
- International Business Times
OpenAI Launches GPT-5: Everything You Need to Know About Its Smarter AI, New Features, Google Integration
After weeks of leaks and rumors, OpenAI has officially launched its much-awaited model, GPT-5. The new model brings all of OpenAI's capabilities under one system and has helped in removing the need for various versions. According to CEO Sam Altman, GPT-5 is "talking to an expert in any topic"—much like what you'd feel with the transition from earlier pixelated phone screens to a Retina Display by Apple. According to OpenAI, this model will be faster and more accurate and can perform any simple tasks as well as complex reasoning without hanging. X Personalisation and Everyday Use GPT-5 comes with a new personalization feature. Users can select a chat color theme and four built-in personalities—Cynic, Robot, Listener, and Nerd—to give the conversation a unique flavor. Paid subscribers get more control over tons of chats and exclusive themes. The model can also integrate seamlessly with Google Calendar, Gmail, and Google Contacts to process your work. For now, these Google tools will only be available for GPT-5 Pro users, and future rollouts are planned. Both free and paid tiers of voice mode now have increased limits, while the old Standard Voice Mode will retire in 30 days. Pricing and Plans GPT-5 comes in three versions: GPT-5, GPT-5 Mini, and GPT-5 Nano. Free users can only use the standard as well as a lighter version, called Mini GPT-5. The more powerful GPT-5 Pro, with faster output and improved reasoning and exclusive tools, will cost you a cool $200 monthly. The subscription contains features such as the ability to skip a level, integration with Google services, and higher usage limits across all features. According to OpenAI, the Pro plan is meant for developers, researchers, and heavy users who want the full potential of the model on demand. Performance, Safety, and Partnerships In comparison to previous models, it is even faster and, more importantly, self-consistent. The number of hallucination errors is also reduced by 65% in comparison to the O3 model and by 26% relative to GPT-4o. More than 5,000 hours of external testing were conducted on the system to guarantee stability and transparency. OpenAI claims that GPT-5 will admit it doesn't know the answer instead of inventing an answer. The model has also enhanced its coding skills, scoring higher in bug removal and app building. It showed a simple demo where an interactive app was built in under one minute, using only text prompts. Microsoft has already integrated the new model into its products, and Google will support it soon. Although the new tools are only available to Pro plan users currently, OpenAI is planning to roll them out to even more tiers soon. This comes as almost 700 million people are using OpenAI models every week. If the creation and ongoing controversies around GPT-5 are any indication, we could all be in for a bumpy ride as long as it remains cool to develop the smartest thinking machine.
Time of India
2 days ago
- Business
- Time of India
Sam Altman says ChatGPT 5 is an expert. A small maths slip shows why it's still not perfect
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman describes ChatGPT 5 as 'like talking to an expert in any topic.' The company calls it its most advanced AI yet, capable of reasoning across subjects with PhD-level proficiency. Yet, on launch day, the model made a basic decimal subtraction error that underscored a reality of AI development: no matter how sophisticated, the technology can still make small but visible mistakes. The equation was simple: 5.9 = x + 5.11 The correct solution is: x=0.79 GPT-5 initially answered: x=−0.21 before correcting itself when prompted. by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like The World's Most Stunning Blue Flag Beaches Ranked: Top 25 List! Click Here Undo Why did GPT-5 make the error? This wasn't a limitation of its ability to handle decimals — the maths itself is well within its capabilities — but a case of what AI engineers call reasoning slips . Models like GPT-5 don't 'see' numbers in the way humans do. Instead of performing calculations in a dedicated numerical processor by default, they generate answers based on patterns in training data, unless specifically prompted to calculate step-by-step. In this instance, the model appears to have briefly reversed the subtraction order mentally, before correcting when asked again. This kind of mistake can happen when an AI tries to solve a problem 'in its head' without breaking it down explicitly, much like a human making an off-by-sign error during mental maths. It's a reminder that while GPT-5 is much stronger at reasoning than previous models, accuracy improves when users give it clear instructions to show its working. A major leap in capability Launched on Thursday night, GPT-5 replaces all previous OpenAI models, including the GPT-4 series and the o-series, combining general question answering, complex reasoning, and tool usage into a single system. It automatically decides when to switch to its deeper 'thinking mode' for more complex problems. Altman compared the leap from GPT-4 to GPT-5 to Apple's move from standard pixels to the Retina Display, saying: 'It's the first time it really feels like you're talking to an expert in any topic.' OpenAI says GPT-5 is its best coding model yet, capable of building complete websites, apps, and games in a single prompt, and significantly better at following instructions without straying from the request. Improved accuracy — but not infallibility According to OpenAI, GPT-5 is 45% less likely to produce factual errors than GPT-4o in standard mode, and 80% less likely in 'thinking mode.' It also has reduced hallucinations — where AI generates plausible-sounding but incorrect information. However, as the decimal slip showed, the model can still make small, low-level errors if it doesn't explicitly calculate step-by-step. This is partly because GPT-5 is designed to prioritise conversational fluency and context over raw number crunching unless told otherwise. Availability and pricing GPT-5 is available in three versions: Mini – A lightweight variant used when usage limits are reached. Regular – The default model for most signed-in users. Pro – A $200/month subscription with the fastest, most powerful version. All signed-in ChatGPT users now default to GPT-5, with automatic switching to 'thinking mode' when the system detects a harder problem. The decimal takeaway GPT-5's decimal error isn't evidence that it lacks mathematical skill — in fact, it can handle advanced calculus, algebra, and statistical analysis with high accuracy. Rather, it's a reminder that AI reasoning still depends on how problems are framed and processed. For everyday use, GPT-5 is a leap forward: more accurate, more capable, and far better at following instructions. But like any expert — human or artificial — it benefits from being asked to show its working. That's often the difference between an answer that's fast and one that's right. AI Masterclass for Students. Upskill Young Ones Today!– Join Now
Engadget
3 days ago
- Business
- Engadget
GPT-5 is here and it's free for everyone
A couple of days after announcing its first open-weight models in six years , OpenAI is releasing the long-awaited GPT-5. What's more, you can start using it today, even if you're a free user. With GPT-5, the company is touting across-the-board enhancements, claiming the model is its best yet when it comes to coding, writing, safety, accuracy and more. "GPT-5 is the first time that it really feels like you're talking to an expert in any topic," said OpenAI CEO (and hypeman) Sam Altman during a press briefing the company held before today's announcement. "It reminds me of when the iPhone went from those giant, old pixel [screens] to the Retina Display, and then I went back to using one of those big pixelated things and I was like, 'Wow, I can't believe how bad we had it.'" At the start of the year , Altman said GPT-5 would offer a unified experience for users, and the new model delivers on that promise. For the first time, OpenAI's default offering is a reasoning model, meaning the system is programmed to tackle complex problems by breaking them into smaller parts. Previously, if you wanted to force ChatGPT to use one of OpenAI's reasoning models, you had to select the "Think Longer" option from the prompt bar. This meant most free users didn't even know OpenAI had more capable models. With GPT-5, the company has significantly simplified the ChatGPT experience. On the consumer side of things, there are only three versions of the new model. One of those — GPT-5 mini — only crops up when free and Plus users run into their regular GPT-5 usage limit. The other variant, GPT-5 Pro, is, as the name suggests, only available to subscribers of the company's $200 per month Pro plan . On the subject of query limits, Plus users can use GPT-5 "significantly" more than those with a free account, while Pro customers can chat with GPT-5 as much as they want. When it comes to reasoning, GPT-5 is much faster than o3 , OpenAI's previous state-of-the-art AI. "It's so fast that I've had the psychological experience of wondering, like, is it really thinking enough? And then it gives a great answer," said Altman. Perhaps more importantly, it suffers from fewer hallucinations, with OpenAI claiming the model delivers more accurate answers than any of its previous reasoning systems. We'll see how GPT-5 responds in real-world use, but if OpenAI has made meaningful improvements here, it would be a big deal; hallucinations have typically been a major weakness of reasoning models, particularly relative to traditional large language counterparts. A graphic highlighting some of the enhanced capabilities of GPT-5 (OpenAI) At the same time, OpenAI says GPT-5 is its safest AI to date. For one, it includes a new feature called Safe Completions. "In the past, we've approached this from a sort of a binary, if we thought that the prompt was safe, we would comply. If we thought it was unsafe, the model would refuse," said Alex Beutel, safety research lead at OpenAI. "This worked well, but as a challenge that there can be kind of carefully worded prompts that could be confusing. So if someone says how much energy is needed to ignite some specific material that could be an adversary trying to get around the safety protections and cause harm, or it could be a student asking a science question to understand the physics of this material." With Safe Completions, GPT-5 will try to give the most helpful answer within the safety constraints OpenAI has imposed on it. In tricky situations like the one Beutel outlined above, the model will only provide high-level information that can't be used to harm anyone. "On average, the system is both safer and more helpful for users, and we think that'll be much better," Beutel added. Additionally, when it comes to health-related questions, GPT-5 is better at flagging concerns and suggesting questions the user should ask of their healthcare provider. It will also answer those prompts more precisely, thanks to the ability to adapt to the person's knowledge level and geography. On top of everything else, OpenAI says GPT-5 is its best model for coding yet. It's supposedly a better writer too, with the company promising the chatbot is better at translating your drafts into "compelling, resonant" copy. Alongside GPT-5, OpenAI is adding a handful of new features to ChatGPT. To start, users can now choose a color for their chats, with a few exclusive options available for paying customers. OpenAI has also made it easier to connect ChatGPT to Gmail, Google Calendar and Google Contacts. Once you enable the connections, the chatbot will know when to automatically reference your Google accounts; you won't need to select anything before you start chatting. OpenAI will begin rolling out this feature to Pro subscribers starting next week, with availability for other users to follow. Over in the Custom Instructions pane, where you can write system prompts to tweak how ChatGPT interacts with you, OpenAI is introducing a handful of pre-set personalities. The four options — cynic, robot, listener and nerd — are available as part of a research preview, and can be changed or disabled at any time. Last but not least, OpenAI is releasing an updated version of its Advanced Voice feature the company introduced last summer . OpenAI says the tool is better at understanding instructions and adapting its speaking style to the moment. As part of this change, OpenAI is retiring Standard Voice Mode. In practice, that means the company can now offer a better voice experience to everyone since it doesn't need to fall back on Standard Voice Mode, which isn't natively multi-modal like Advanced Voice and therefore worse at understanding the nuances of human speech. If you're wondering where this leaves OpenAI on the path toward artificial general intelligence, Altman had this to say when asked about the topic. "I kind of hate the term AGI, because everyone at this point uses it to mean a slightly different thing, but [GPT-5] is a significant step forward towards models that are really capable. We're still missing something quite important," he said, noting GPT-5 can't continuously learn on its own. "But the level of intelligence here, the level of capability, it feels like a huge improvement. Certainly, if I could go back five years before GPT-3 and you told me we have this now, I'd be like that's a significant fraction of the way to something very AGI-like."
