CEO Sam Altman simply shared a roadmap on X, revealing that OpenAI’s upcoming GPT-5 launch will characteristic its o3 reasoning mannequin and, notably, be accessible to free customers. He additionally talked about that the corporate is engaged on making ChatGPT even simpler to make use of.
We would like AI to “simply work” for you; we understand how difficult our mannequin and product choices have gotten. We hate the mannequin picker as a lot as you do and need to return to magic unified intelligence.
– Sam Altman, OpenAI CEO, February 2025
As for OpenAI’s roadmap, Altman revealed that GPT-4.5 would be the final mannequin with out “chain-of-thought” reasoning. Meaning each mannequin after will probably be in a position to break down issues into smaller steps to enhance reasoning.
As soon as GPT-4.5 is out, OpenAI’s predominant focus can be unifying its o-series and GPT-series fashions, making a system that may seamlessly swap between instruments, resolve when to take its time pondering, and usually deal with a variety of duties extra successfully.
When GPT-5 does land, OpenAI intends to supply free customers limitless entry – although with restrictions to stop abuse – on the “commonplace intelligence setting.” Plus, subscribers will get entry to a extra superior model, whereas Professional customers will be capable to faucet into a fair increased intelligence tier.
As for when all of that is taking place, Altman did not give a agency date for both GPT-4.5 or GPT-5, solely mentioning that they may arrive within the coming weeks or months.
