ChatGPT-5: What we know, when it may launch, and other details

ChatGPT-5 will be smarter and better than GPT 4 and if you are a free user of ChatGPT and still using GPT 3.5, then there will be a marked difference

That’s the thing with technology, no? The minute a new piece of tech comes, the old — or rather not-so-old — starts looking dated, feeling a bit stale. OpenAI’s GPT-4 model is still a new tech, but if you are the CEO of the company, then that also might pale in comparison to what’s about to come. Or, in Sam Altman’s words, “it kind of sucks”. That’s what the OpenAI CEO said in an interview with Lex Fridman about GPT-4 when talking about GPT-5, the upcoming generative AI model the company is expected to release. Here’s what we know about it so far:

What is GPT-5?

OpenAI says that ChatGPT 5 is — already at an advanced stage of development — “a state-of-the-art language model that makes it feel like you are communicating with a person rather than a machine”. In other words, smarter and better than GPT 4 and if you are a free user of ChatGPT and still using GPT 3.5, then there will be a marked difference.

To be fair to Altman, he further said about ChatGPT 4 that he thinks it is “an amazing thing, but relative to where we need to get to and where I believe we will get to, at the time of like GPT-3, people were like ‘oh this is amazing, this is like marvel of technology’ and it is, it was.”

He compared GPT-4 with GPT-3 and said that now the older model feels “unimaginably horrible”.

Altman also said that it is his job to “to live a few years in the future and remember that the tools we have now are going to kind of suck, looking backward at them, and that’s how we make sure the future is better.”

How much better can ChatGPT-5 be?

Smarter and better, for sure, as per Altman. “I’m excited about it being smarter…and that it’s getting like better across the board.” OpenAI says that GPT-5 will show “a massive leap in the field of natural language processing” It is likely to have better abilities to understand and then generate human-like text. OpenAI says it has “the potential to revolutionise the way we interact with machines and automate various language-based tasks.”

When do we expect it to arrive?

Sometime this year as OpenAI is tightlipped about the availability of it. In the interview with Fridman, Altman said, “We will release an amazing model this year. I don’t know what we’ll call it.” It may well be ChatGPT 5, but Altman has been categorical in his statement about how much he ‘hates’ the name ChatGPT, so it could come with a different name.