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ARTICLE VIEW:
ChatGPT is getting a big upgrade. It’s smarter and less likely to
deceive you
By Lisa Eadicicco, CNN
Updated:
9:05 PM EDT, Thu August 7, 2025
Source: CNN
OpenAI on Thursday launched GPT-5, an upgraded version of the AI model
behind ChatGPT that the company claims is significantly faster and more
capable than its predecessor. The launch comes as the AI giant has
faced increased competition and amid growing concerns about AI’s
impact on mental health and future jobs.
GPT-5, which launches today across OpenAI’s free and paid tiers, will
make ChatGPT better at tasks like writing, coding and answering
health-related questions, OpenAI claims. It also promises to prevent
the popular chatbot from hallucinating as often and deceiving users
when it can’t answer a question, the company says.
New models like GPT-5 are important because they determine how services
like ChatGPT function and the new capabilities they’ll support,
making them an essential part of its future direction. OpenAI CEO Sam
Altman said at a briefing with reporters Wednesday that GPT-5 is a
“significant step” on the path toward artificial general
intelligence, a hypothetical point at which AI can match human-level
thinking.
“GPT-4 felt like you’re kind of talking to a college student. GPT-5
is the first time that it really feels like talking to an expert in any
topic, like a PhD-level expert,” Altman said.
In addition to arriving in ChatGPT, the new model will also be
available for developers who build tools and services based on
OpenAI’s technology.
Software development is a big area of focus for GPT-5; Altman says the
model can generate “an entire piece of software” for you – a
practice colloquially known as “vibe coding.” In a demo, OpenAI
showed how ChatGPT was able to create a website for learning French
after typing in a prompt asking it to do so. Altman said use cases like
this will be a “defining part of the new GPT-5 era.”
GPT-5 is arriving as coders are increasingly using AI to handle certain
parts of their job. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg he expects around half of
the company’s code to be written by AI next year. Twenty to 30% of
Microsoft’s code is being written by AI, CEO Satya Nadella .
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei sparked fears over AI impacting jobs he
believes the technology could lead to a spike in unemployment.
OpenAI’s new model also hits on another concern around the use of AI:
that it can be deceptive, as research from and AI research firm has
shown, or provide incorrect information.
There have been previous instances in which the system would say it
could do a task that it couldn’t complete, or refer to an image that
wasn’t there, Alex Beutel, OpenAI’s safety research lead, said
during the briefing. With GPT-5, the company says it has trained the
model to be honest in these types of scenarios.
GPT-5 will also be more careful about how it answers questions to
queries that could be potentially harmful. While the company didn’t
provide a specific example of how that would look in practice, it said
the model will aim to give an answer that’s helpful “within the
constraints of remaining safe,” according to Beutel, which might
involve given high-level answers that aren’t too specific.
The update comes after concerns have been raised about people becoming
too reliant on AI assistants, particularly emotionally, raising
questions about the technology’s impact on mental wellbeing. A man in
Idaho, for example, that ChatGPT sparked a spiritual awakening for him
after he began discussing topics like religion with the chatbot. His
wife said it put a lot of strain on their family.
OpenAI is widely considered to be the frontrunner in AI thanks to
ChatGPT, which is now on .
But the competition continues to grow, especially among younger users.
Research from web analytics company suggests that AI search app
Perplexity, DeepSeek, Anthropic’s Claude and xAI’s Grok are all
have higher app usage among 18-34 year olds. And Zuckerberg is
attempting to with reported multimillion dollar pay packages to get
ahead in the AI race.
The launch also comes at a period of growth and expansion for AI. The
tech giant now plays a bigger role in education and the government,
recently striking a partnership with classroom software provider
Instructure and launching a study mode for ChatGPT. OpenAI has also
worked with the Trump administration on projects like the $500 billion
AI infrastructure project known as . Altman has appeared in Washington
several times and OpenAI recently confirmed plans to open its first
office in the US capital city.
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