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Openai has introduced GPT-5, the long-awaited update of its flagship with great language, which has chatted, which chief Sam Altman has called “big upgrade” and a significant step towards artificial general intelligence.
The 300 billion dollar company said on Thursday that the next generation model was “state-of-the-art” on several independent industrial benchmarks in areas such as mathematics, natural sciences and coding. All consumers will be available for free users via chatt with limits.
The publication takes place for almost two and a half years after the company has revealed GPT-4, which made it possible to make a significant leap in terms of skills, and investors and users are looking forward to the next model of the group based in San Francisco.
Openai Said GPT-5 was particularly good in the so-called Vibe coding, in which users can instruct the AI using text requirements to create new software. “This idea of the software on need will be a defining part of the GPT-5 era,” added Altman.
In the almost three years since the start and the generative AI in the mainstream, Openai has seen its popularity and evaluation considerably.
The product now has more than 700 million weekly active users and the company discusses A New rating of USD 500 billionAccording to people with knowledge of the plans of the start-up, which would make it the most valuable private technology company in the world.
Openai’s supporters expected a new model to support this evaluation and justify their belief that the AI group will one day be a company with several drinks.
The company has achieved an annual recurring income of USD 12 billion, a metric that measures income from subscriptions for over a year, which is preferred by rapidly growing start-ups. According to a person with knowledge of their finances, it predicts 20 billion USD or more in arr.
The coding has developed into one of the most common and commercially valuable use cases AI. Openai Rival Anthropic has dominated the previous market, but Openai has focused on improving the coding performance of his new model to compete.
In tests, GPT-5 was more precise and less likely “hallucinating” or refusing to answer questions. It is also the first flagship model that has been described as a “high” risk of biological and chemical risk, which means that it is more susceptible to creating biological weapons or new viruses.
“Although we have no final evidence that this model could help novices sensibly to create serious biological damage – our defined threshold for high skills – we have decided on precautionary measures,” said the company.
Openai primarily earns money with subscriptions that are sufficient for individual users between 20 and 200 US dollars per month with customer -specific prices for companies or educational institutions. Openaai said that it had 5 million paying business users in his team, enterprise and Edu levels.
Openai also released this week First AI model “Open” Since Chatgpt started, it has been trying to lift the increasing competition of Chinese start-up deepseek and others in the most modern technology.
Rival Anthropic, founded by former Openai employees, announced an update of his Claude -OPUS model on Tuesday, which means that the ability to work autonomously as an agent and to perform complex tasks such as coding.
“The mood of this model is really good,” said Nick Turley, Openais Head of the Chatgpt product, “but at the end of the day people will just have to feel it.”
