ChatGPT-5 and GPT-5 rumors: Expected release date, all the rumors so far

It’s been years now since ChatGPT first blew us away with its impressive natural language capabilities. A lot has changed since then, with Microsoft investing a staggering $10 billion in ChatGPT’s creator OpenAI and competitors like Google’s Gemini threatening to take the top spot. Since then, we’ve seen GPT-4 evolve significantly, spanning several related models. It’s only a matter of time before GPT-5 arrives, but what exactly can we expect when it does? To answer that question, let’s dive right in and take a look at everything we know or have heard rumored about GPT-5.

The road to GPT-5: Will there be a ChatGPT 5?

Yes, OpenAI and its CEO have confirmed that GPT-5 is in active development. The steady march of AI innovation means that OpenAI hasn’t stopped with GPT-4. At the time of this writing, there are several newer models that have followed the initial launch of GPT-4 including GPT-4o, o3, o4, and several other similar variants.

While GPT-4 came just shortly after GPT-3 became public, the road to GPT-5 has been much longer as the company experimented with reasoning models and several other variants first. The good news is that GPT-5 is expected this year, though there’s been no clear date on when it will arrive.

GPT-5 release date: When will it arrive?

GPT-4’s impressive skillset and ability to mimic humans sparked fear in the tech community, prompting many to question the ethics and legality of it all. Some notable personalities, including Elon Musk and Steve Wozniak, have warned about the dangers of AI and called for a unilateral pause on training models “more advanced than GPT-4”. They also suggested tech giants step back from the AI arms race.

At the time, in mid-2023, OpenAI announced that it had no intentions of training a successor to GPT-4. However, that changed by the end of 2023 following a long-drawn battle between CEO Sam Altman and the board over differences in opinion. Altman reportedly pushed for aggressive language model development, while the board had reservations about AI safety. The former eventually prevailed and the majority of the board opted to step down. Since then, Altman has spoken more candidly about OpenAI’s plans for ChatGPT-5 and the next generation language model.

In a January 2024 interview with Bill Gates, Altman confirmed that development on GPT-5 was underway. He also said that OpenAI would focus on building better reasoning capabilities as well as the ability to process videos. The current-gen GPT-4 model already offers speech and image functionality, so video is the next logical step. The company also showed off a text-to-video AI tool called Sora in the following weeks.

Even though OpenAI released GPT-4 mere months after ChatGPT, we know that it took over two years to train, develop, and test. That means it’s not too surprising it’s taken this long, even if the timeframe is a bit slower. So when might we finally see GPT-5? The odds of it arriving later this summer seem fairly high, though, especially with Google I/O 2025 and the recent announcements around OpenAI’s rival, Gemini.

GPT-5 features: How will it improve ChatGPT?

Given that GPT-5 is still potentially months away, there’s very little that we can say officially. That said, rumors and industry trends suggest GPT-5 will bring some of the following improvements to the table:

• Upgraded multimodal capabilities: GPT-4 can already handle image and text inputs, but we’re still waiting on the video modality. We’ve already seen Google start to experiment with multimodal AI with its Gemini model. It’s only a matter of time before competition forces OpenAI to innovate as well.
• More truthful: A next-generation language model like GPT-5 could increase its training dataset size and variety. Even though GPT-4 fares better than its predecessors, it doesn’t know a lot about obscure scientific concepts and lesser-known subjects. And in the absence of knowledge, large language models tend to hallucinate or respond with made-up information.
• Artificial general intelligence (AGI): Imagine if you could assign menial tasks or jobs to AI. That could become a reality with GPT-5 if OpenAI continues to work on integrations with third-party services. For example, you could ask an autonomous agent to buy groceries based on your budget and dietary preferences. It would automatically search the internet for recipes, shop for the required ingredients, and have them delivered to you. This would bring us one step closer to artificial general intelligence (AGI).
• No need to manually pick a model anymore. There are currently around eight available models depending on your ChatGPT subscription tier, and often it can be hard to know which to pick for your project or query. ChatPGT is strongly rumored to be merging these models so that GPT-5 automatically knows the best way to approach any question or project.

Finally, GPT-5’s release could mean that the older GPT-4 variants will become accessible and cheaper to use.  Once it becomes cheaper and more widely accessible, though, ChatGPT could become a lot more proficient at complex tasks like coding, translation, and research.

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