Overview

• GPT-5 is now live for every ChatGPT user, with free accounts receiving capped access and paid tiers unlocking higher usage limits and early features
• The model’s hybrid reasoning architecture fuses OpenAI’s “o.” series and conventional language processing to auto-select the best sub-model for each query
• OpenAI reports that GPT-5 delivers expert-level accuracy with markedly fewer hallucinations across tasks from writing to complex problem solving
• GPT-5 enables on-demand software generation, demonstrated by its ability to build functional web apps and code from simple natural-language prompts in minutes
• Microsoft has begun integrating GPT-5 into Azure-powered products and users can now connect external services like Gmail, Calendar and Contacts for contextualized assistance