Explore the Top 7 Exciting New Features in GPT-5, Ready for Immediate Use
OpenAI, the leading artificial intelligence research company, has unveiled its latest innovation - GPT-5. This new model is set to make ChatGPT more accurate, customizable, and helpful, revolutionizing the way users interact with the AI.
GPT-5 is designed to provide smarter, more efficient reasoning, stronger factual reliability, expanded multimodal input/output functionality, and richer user customization. Here are some key advancements:
Improved Accuracy and Reduced Hallucinations
GPT-5 produces about 80% fewer factual errors than its predecessor, OpenAI o3, on complex benchmarks. This makes it much more reliable for real-world tasks in coding, data, and decision-making. The hallucination rate drops by about six times compared to o3 when reasoning on open-ended factual questions.
Built-in Deeper Reasoning ("Thinking" Mode)
GPT-5 can automatically apply deeper, multi-step reasoning when needed, improving performance on complex tasks such as coding, scientific problem solving, and financial analysis.
Customizable Reasoning Effort
Developers using the API can now choose a parameter with levels like , , (default), and to balance speed vs. thoroughness, allowing fine control depending on the task requirements.
Verbosity Control
A new parameter lets developers steer the default length of GPT-5's responses, enhancing customization of output style.
Multimodal Capabilities and Unified System
GPT-5 integrates text, images, voice, and live video into a single, unified AI system. This enables dynamic routing of inputs and outputs, dramatically expanding use cases such as real-time coding assistance and live video guidance.
Enhanced Personalization and Interface Features
Users can select personalities and chat colours, customize voice style for spoken output, and enable personalized learning study modes. Integration with Gmail and Google Calendar enables personalized and contextualized responses.
Efficiency and Speed
GPT-5 requires 50-80% fewer output tokens to deliver superior quality answers. It is also designed to be faster while maintaining or improving answer quality.
In addition to these improvements, GPT-5 allows users to create custom, interactive applications on demand using a simple prompt. It also offers Voice Mode, which is now available to all users, including free users, but with higher usage limits for paid users.
OpenAI continues to support GPT-4.1, which has a one-million-token context window, for times when processing massive amounts of information is necessary.
The new model also introduces four new preset personalities in ChatGPT, which can inform how ChatGPT interacts with users on a chat-by-chat basis. This feature will initially be available only to Pro users, starting next week, and will be rolled out to other tiers later.
GPT-5 can connect to external apps like Google Drive, Google Calendar, and Google Contacts, automatically pulling information from them as necessary. Users can now choose colours for different chats in ChatGPT, aiding in chat organization.
However, it's important to note that while GPT-5 provides better health-related information to users, users should still consult with a medical professional before making any health-related decisions.
In other news, Ziff Davis, the parent company of the website, has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI, alleging copyright infringement in training and operating its AI systems.
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- OpenAI's latest innovation, GPT-5, is set to revolutionize user interactions with AI by offering smarter, more efficient reasoning, stronger factual reliability, expanded multimodal input/output functionality, and richer user customization.
- The new model, GPT-5, has improvements in accuracy, reducing factual errors by 80% compared to its predecessor on complex benchmarks, making it more reliable for real-world tasks like coding, data, and decision-making.
- Developers utilizing GPT-5's API can now fine-tune the reasoning effort with levels like , , (default), and , allowing a balance between speed and thoroughness according to task requirements.
- With GPT-5, users can enjoy multimodal capabilities, integrating text, images, voice, and live video into a single, unified AI system, which expands use cases such as real-time coding assistance and live video guidance.
