TEHRAN (Tasnim) - OpenAI on Thursday released the fifth generation of the artificial intelligence technology that powers ChatGPT, a product update thats being closely watched as a measure of whether generative AI is advancing rapidly or hitting a plateau.
- Other Media news -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 AIs capabilities.
In anticipation, rival Anthropic released the latest version of its own chatbot, Claude, earlier in the week, part of a race with Google and other competitors in the US and China to leapfrog each other on AI benchmarks. Meanwhile, longtime OpenAI partner Microsoft said it will incorporate GPT-5 into its own AI assistant, Copilot.
Expectations are high for the newest version of OpenAIs flagship model because the San Francisco company has long positioned its technical advancements as a path toward artificial general intelligence, or AGI, a technology that is supposed to surpass humans at economically valuable work, the AP reported.
It is also trying to raise huge amounts of money to get there, in part to pay for the costly computer chips and data centers needed to build and run the technology.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman described the new model as a significant step along our path to AGI but mostly focused on its usability to the 700 million people he says use ChatGPT each week.
Its like talking to an expert --a legitimate PhD-level expert in anything, any area you need, on demand, Altman said at a launch event livestreamed Thursday.
It may take some time to see how people use the new model --now available, with usage limits, to anyone with a free ChatGPT account. The Thursday event focused heavily on ChatGPTs use in coding, an area where Anthropic is seen as a leader, and featured a guest appearance by the CEO of coding software maker Cursor, an important Anthropic customer.
OpenAI started in 2015 as a nonprofit research laboratory to safely build AGI and has since incorporated a for-profit company with a valuation that has grown to $300 billion. The company has tried to change its structure since the nonprofit board ousted Altman in November 2023. He was reinstated days later.
