It seems like OpenAI is inching closer to releasing its next flagship AI model, GPT-5. According to some recent reports, the company might launch the GPT-5 in early to mid-August 2025. While the company has not made any official announcement, CEO Sam Altman confirmed on July 19 via social media that the model is “coming soon.” He also discussed the upcoming release in more detail during a podcast appearance on July 23.
If we go by some online reports, GPT-5 is currently in its final stages of internal evaluation and safety testing. These tests are a key part of OpenAI’s updated approach to model deployment, aiming to minimise risks before release.
Based on available details, GPT-5 is expected to integrate OpenAI’s o3 model and bring big improvements in factual accuracy, multimodal input (such as images and audio), reasoning abilities, and user-level customization. There are also mentions of “mini” and “nano” variants that may be offered via OpenAI’s API, potentially making the technology more flexible for specific use cases.
Furthermore, recently Mr Romain Huet, who is the Head of Developer Experience at OpenAI, stated, “We’re truly excited to not just make a new great frontier model, we’re also going to unify our two series. The breakthrough of reasoning in the O-series and the breakthroughs in multi-modality in the GPT-series will be unified, and that will be GPT-5.”
Apart from him, OpenAI’s VP Jerry Tworek echoed that described GPT-5 on Reddit as a “foundational model” designed to improve existing tasks and reduce the need for switching between different models. While a specific launch date hasn’t been confirmed, OpenAI continues to signal a summer 2025 release.
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