Srijita Chakraborty
The buzz around GPT-5’s upcoming launch was sparked when OpenAI CEO Sam Altman hinted at its release in a post on X (formerly Twitter), stating that the company would be “releasing GPT-5 soon.” Shortly, Altman also shared insights during his appearance on the This Past Weekend podcast hosted by comedian Theo Von, where he recounted a moment when the model flawlessly solved a problem which he couldn’t. He added “It was a weird feeling, I felt useless relative to the AI.”
Chat GPT is one of the top used Large Language Models (LLMs) in the world. Every version upgrade has added to newer capabilities and processing power, making Open AI the benchmark for any AI performance.
The new upgrade was livestreamed on Aug 7, 2025 in Open AI’s Youtube channel and is hyped up by CEO Sam Altman as a game changer.
The new alterations and improvements have suggested a more dramatic capacity leap from GPT 3 to GPT. GPT 5 is speculated to have PhD level proficiency owing to a deeper reasoning model (GPT‑5 thinking) for logic heavy tasks, and a real‑time router. Expanding on GPT-4o’s real-time capabilities with voice and image, GPT-5 introduces video processing, enabling seamless interaction through text, images, audio, and video. The version features a context window exceeding 256,000 tokens, which is double the size of GPT-4 enabling the model to handle coherent interactions and develop superior memory retention across sessions. The anticipated ability to perform autonomous tasks, will allow GPT-5 to handle complex, multi-step processes with minimal user guidance.
GPT‑5 is Open AI’s strongest coding model with improvements in complex front‑end generation and debugging larger repositories. It has the ability to create beautiful and responsive websites, apps, and games with an eye for aesthetic sensibility in just one prompt.
However, limitations in available training data have challenged OpenAI’s efforts to scale the model. To address performance limitations, OpenAI is now focusing on Test-Time Compute (TTC), a method that uses increased processing power during task execution to handle more complex problems. Sam Altman has said GPT-5 will integrate both large-scale models and test-time compute acknowledging the complexities of Open AI’s product endeavours calling them “complicated” and a subsequent attempt to simplify it for the users.