AI competitors gain ground, Chatgpt-5 upgrade faces user rebound


Chatgpt users have been flooded with negative comments about the platform’s latest model released on Thursday, saying the upgrade was exaggerated by OpenAI CEO and co-founder Sam Altman.

Users on Reddit criticize The company’s ChatGpt-5 model says it has tighter rate limits and lacks the ability to switch to previous AI models, and there are some threats to switch to competing AI platforms. Altman responds to feedback in X postal:

“As we complete the launch, we will offer Chatgpt Plus users twice the GPT-5 rate limit. We will give users the option to continue using 4O. We will watch usage as we consider how long it takes to provide the legacy model.”

Altman calls GPT-5 a “major upgrade to GPT-4” and follows the road as an “important step” Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) on Thursday’s official roll out.

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Openai CEO Sam Altman demonstrated Chatgpt-5 during the launch of the AI model. source: Openai

Negative user feedback from the latest ChatGpt version is here In the growing competition Starting with open, open source and decentralized AI platforms, these platforms are undercapitalized and are consuming market share of large, centralized players in consumer AI applications.

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Artificial intelligence company DeepSeek releases new Open-weighted large language model April is called Contender v2. LLM is tailored for math.

The open weight AI model allows anyone to download and use the software, but leaves key aspects such as training data in the publicly available information.

The additional transparency is lower than the full open source code, where the user has full access to the code base and can fully produce the software from that code.

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However, open weighted software is more transparent than centralized models with code as black boxes, and users stay in the dark.

The same is true for the company Released the DeepSeek R1 upgradeIn May, a more general open weighted AI model. DeepSeek R1-0528 plays a role in leading AI models including OpenAI-O3 Benchmark From the company.

Since its release in January, the DeepSeek app has been downloaded more than 75 million times according to Make the application.

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