OpenAI Is Readying Its GPT-5 But It May Not Be The Breakthrough Some Are Expecting

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman confirmed recently that GPT-5 will launch in early August. Early reports indicate that GPT-5 will come in three versions: Nano, main, and mini, and that users should be able to access the main and mini versions via OpenAI's API or ChatGPT, while the nano version will likely be accessed only via the API.

Unlike previous GPT versions that could only accurately answer questions contained within the data used to train the model, without reasoning capabilities, GPT-5 will integrate multiple-step reasoning.

By leveraging technolgies from its large language and reasoning models, OpenAI hopes to achieve an Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) milestone at some point in the future, but that won't be happening in the short term. Regarding GPT-5, Altman said via X, "We are releasing GPT-5 soon but want to set accurate expectations: this is an experimental model that incorporates new research techniques we will ...