Overview
- OpenAI announced that GPT-5, originally due earlier in the summer, will be released in early August.
- The new model integrates text, image and additional data processing with user memory and advanced reasoning in a single system.
- GPT-5’s core version will be freely available to all users, with Mini and Nano variants designed for specialized developer and enterprise applications.
- Altman has cautioned that AI development is exceeding existing oversight and called out a stalled “Big, Beautiful Bill” as blocking more responsive state and local regulation.
- The launch arrives as OpenAI faces rising competition from rivals like Anthropic, Google, Amazon and Chinese AI firms racing to deploy comparable systems.