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OpenAI could launch GPT-5 any minute now - what to expect


Here's why this model is a big deal.

Boris Power, head of applied research at OpenAI, made an X post on Monday that read: "Excited to see how the public receives GPT-5!" However, the most obvious evidence is OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's X post in which he shared there was "something big-but-small today," a reference to the release of the open models, gpt-oss-120b & gpt-oss-20b, and "then a big upgrade later this week," an almost definite nod to GPT-5. Last week, Nick Turley, head of ChatGPT, told me the goal of this release was "that the average person does not need to think about which model to use."

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