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OpenAI released GPT-5 on 7 August 2025, marking the culmination of years of anticipation and the company's most ambitious model to date. The system unified OpenAI's previous separate offerings into a single, intelligent platform that automatically routes queries between fast responses and deep reasoning modes. GPT-5 achieved remarkable benchmark scores, including 94.6% on advanced mathematics competitions and 74.9% on software engineering tasks, whilst introducing improved hallucination reduction and enhanced coding capabilities.
The launch proved more turbulent than expected, with users criticising GPT-5's overly formal tone and perceived coldness compared to the warmer GPT-4o. Technical issues with the automatic routing system temporarily degraded performance, prompting CEO Sam Altman to acknowledge that OpenAI "totally screwed up" the rollout. The company responded by restoring access to earlier models and adjusting GPT-5's personality to feel more approachable. These challenges highlighted the delicate balance between advancing raw intelligence and maintaining the conversational warmth users value.
OpenAI has confirmed that GPT-6 will not arrive in 2025, but development is already well underway with a focus on personalisation and memory. Altman has indicated the gap between GPT-5 and GPT-6 will be shorter than the lengthy interval between GPT-4 and GPT-5, with speculation pointing towards early to mid-2026. The next generation is expected to feature persistent memory across sessions, remembering user preferences, writing styles and project histories. Enhanced agentic capabilities will enable GPT-6 to autonomously manage complex, multi-step workflows, responding to growing demand for AI systems that can act as true collaborators rather than simple question-answering tools.
The trajectory from GPT-1 in 2018 through to GPT-5 and beyond reflects broader shifts in how society integrates artificial intelligence into daily life. With approximately 700 million people using ChatGPT weekly and millions of businesses deploying the technology through Microsoft Copilot and enterprise APIs, the GPT series has become foundational infrastructure for knowledge work. The models have progressed from basic text completion to multimodal understanding, reasoning capabilities and now towards persistent, personalised assistance. This evolution raises profound questions about education, professional expertise and the nature of creativity as AI systems approach and potentially surpass human-level performance in increasingly diverse domains.
Behind the technical achievements lie staggering investments in computational resources and energy infrastructure. GPT-5's training utilised Microsoft's AI supercomputers and required months of processing on hundreds of thousands of advanced GPUs. The costs are escalating dramatically, with speculation that GPT-6 could require ten times the investment of its predecessor. OpenAI faces infrastructure constraints that limit its ability to deploy more advanced models already developed internally, prioritising existing users whilst doubling compute capacity. The company's shift towards model distillation—creating smaller, efficient versions from larger ones—reflects practical compromises between capability and scalability as demand continues to surge.
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