OpenAI releases hotly anticipated GPT-5 update Economy Aug 7, 2025 3:59 PM EDT

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — OpenAI on Thursday released the fifth generation of the artificial intelligence technology that powers ChatGPT, a product update that’s being closely watched as a measure of whether generative AI is advancing rapidly or hitting a plateau.

GPT-5 arrives more than two years after the March 2023 release of GPT-4, bookending a period of intense commercial investment, hype and worry over AI’s capabilities.

In anticipation, rival Anthropic released the latest version of its own chatbot, Claude, earlier in the week.

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Expectations are high for the newest version of OpenAI’s flagship model because the San

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