After a wait that feels like forever, OpenAI has finally launched GPT-5. One slightly messy launch later, complete with mixed reviews and backtracks, and we’re now at the point where we here at Tom’s Guide have had some time to play with the newest model.

We’ve compared it against some of the other leading AI models, and also, quickly found the kind of prompts that will get the most out of this latest version of ChatGPT.

GPT-5 saw the biggest improvements in coding, writing and health analysis. However, we’ve found that it is also all-round more capable on most tasks that we set it on.

GPT-5 prompts

Text analysis

Prompt: Analyse this text for meaning, tone and hidden implications. Then, give a short summary that could be understood by anyone

This prompt makes use of both ChatGPT's im

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