OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman said GPT-5 would give his users access to greater levels of intelligence on their devices, with much greater capability than its current model, which was released 15 months ago. “This is like a superpower that would have been pretty much unimaginable at any previous point in human history,” Altman told a press briefing on Thursday. “Everybody is carrying around one of these [smartphones] that now has a team of PhD-level experts ready to help you with whatever your goals are.” The latest release is aimed at shoring up its lead in the AI race against rivals including Meta, Google, and Elon Musk’s xAI. This week Anthropic, a rival company founded by former OpenAI employees, also released a new version of its most powerful artificial intelligence model, Opus 4.1.
