Openai’s very left livestream revealing GPT -5 much stuffed in about an hour and a half of messages and demonstrations. CEO Sam Altman did not show any of the fears he claimed to feel about the new AI model, just a lot of pride in what he and his team had achieved.
Much of the presentation showed GPT-5’s technical milestones and how they are translated into powerful new and upgraded AI features for users. Altman also had a lighter fare to reveal for chatgpt, which offers more customization options and ways for users to link their existing online footprint to chatgpt.
Here are the five most notable pieces coming out of the GPT-5’s debut.
GPT-5 arrives
The GPT-5 is the next iteration of Openai’s models, larger and more powerful, but not different in its basic form. Still, the GPT-5 is large and complex enough to reach a new level in what it seems to resonate.
In essence, you no longer need to spoke-feed IT context or repeat complex that requests three times, or at least not almost as often. Multifaceted questions such as how changing interest rates can affect Gen Z homeowner trends in mixed markets can take several requests refined several times to give the answers you are looking for with previous chat models, but GPT -5 can unpack it.
Based on the demonstrations, GPT -5 looks to analyze each part separately and sew it together. And it marks when there is a gap in its knowledge, which is far better than with certainty hallucinating. It applies to the way of thinking about how it also interacts with users. Although it obviously does not ‘think’, it seems to read between the lines well enough to reflect a user’s mood and even adjust its response to an expressed feeling.
The model should be particularly good with math and coding software. Good enough to deal with the increasingly popular persecution of ‘vibe coding’, where you simply describe a feeling or mood of a piece of software, and AI produces HTML, CSS and JavaScript to match your design vision.
GPT-5 sizes
GPT-5 is available in many sizes beyond the standard version. There is also the smaller GPT-5-mini and an even slimmer GPT-5-NANO that lives only in the API. The big news is that free chatgpt users now have access to both GPT-5 and MINI, while Chatgpt Plus subscribers enjoy higher use limits everywhere.
If you are a pro user who pays $ 200 a month, you now get unlimited GPT-5 access along with access to the more powerful GPT-5-PRO model and GPT-5 thinking. These both take longer to give answers, but come back with deeper, more thought -provoking answers.
However, it is not necessary to choose and choose yourself. Chatgpt now selects the right model automatically based on what you ask and what plan you’re on.
Chatgpt custom personalities and colors
Chatgpt has a standard, pleasantly bland personality, but GPT -5 is advanced enough to offer more variation in the tone and style of AI Chatbot. If you do not want the usual neutral state, you can choose “cynical” for sarcasm with your answer, “listening” if you vent and just need it to repeat the understanding, “Nerd” to a side of Geeky Trivia and “Robot” for the purely mechanical response.
These personalities do not undermine the answers you get, but they taste the answer. Therefore, you can get dry width with productivity tips from the “cynical” tone or gentle encouragement in your goals from “listening.”
In addition, the look of the chatbot can now be changed with the new color themes. If you are a paid subscriber, you will soon be able to adjust the look of chatgpt instead of switching between the usual black or white.
Voting mode
Chatgpt’s voting state gets a sound illumination of itself. Openai rolls a much improved version that works not only with custom GPTs, but also adapts its tone and voice style based on your instructions and overall mood.
You can ask it to be snapping, slower, warmer or whatever else you want. For Chatgpt Plus users, voice response is now almost unlimited. Free users still get access by a few hours a day to chat hands -free.
To streamline things, the old standard voice mode is phased out within 30 days. Then everyone will be on the same upgraded experience.
Google Connections for Chatgpt
Next week, Chatgpt Pro users will be able to connect their Gmail, Google Calendar and Google directly to Chatgpt. This does not mean more shifts to check if you are free next Tuesday or digging through threads to find the one e -mail that you definitely forgot to answer.
Once connected, chatgpt in what it needs to help respond to your queries. Openai assured users that it will only draw the minimum needed and only when useful.
You don’t have to say “check my calendar” or “Pull that contact.” AI will make it based on whether you are requesting something that requires it, like planning a meeting. It chooses a time that works for you and writes the e -mail on your behalf. Other subscription levels are scheduled to access the connections in the near future, so this will not be limited to Pro forever.
All of these upgrades that utilize GPT-5 point to Openai’s bigger plans to make its AI models an intimate part of your life, not just a tool that you occasionally address and feel annoyed at having to carefully parse answers. Smarter reasoning means less cleaning up for the user. Vibe coding changes AI from simply Aping code to interpret your intended use with software. The personalities and colors make AI feel that it is more unique to you, not just one tool in one size that suits everyone, especially with the more realistic voice and access to your email account and calendar
GPT -5 mimics consciousness better than any of its predecessors. This means that it could be mixed in our routines and become as other nature to use as our smartphones. Or at least that’s what Openai and its investors probably hope to see happen.
