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In this edition: OpenAI releases GPT-5.

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OpenAI Releases GPT-5

Ever since GPT-4's release in March 2023 marked a step-change improvement over GPT-3, people have used ‘GPT-5’ as a stand-in to speculate about the next generation of AI capabilities. On Thursday, OpenAI released GPT-5. While state-of-the-art in most respects, GPT-5 is not a step-change improvement over competing systems, or even recent OpenAI models—but we shouldn’t have expected it to be.

GPT-5 is state of the art in most respects. GPT-5 isn’t a single model like GPTs 1 through 4. It is a system of two models: a base model that answers questions quickly and is better at tasks like creative writing (an improved [...]

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(00:19) OpenAI Releases GPT-5

(06:20) In Other News

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First published:
August 12th, 2025

Source:
https://newsletter.safe.ai/p/ai-safety-newsletter-61-openai-releases

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