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ZDNET's key takeaways
OpenAI GPT-5 will be released "soon," which could be this week.
It will automatically select the best model for prompts.
It should help produce higher-quality and faster answers.
Despite OpenAI just launching its highly anticipated open-source models on Tuesday, people are already on the lookout for OpenAI's next big move, with rumblings of an even bigger release on the near horizon: GPT-5.
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While speculation about GPT-5 isn't new, there have been easter eggs insinuating that the release might be as early as this week. Boris Power, head of applied research at OpenAI, made an X post on Monday that read: "Excited to see how the public receives GPT-5!"
Other companies have been adding to the rumors; for example, Flowith already teased that GPT-5 is coming soon under its model picker. However, the most obvious evidence is OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's X post in which he shared there was "something big-but-small today," a reference to the release of the open models, gpt-oss-120b & gpt-oss-20b, and "then a big upgrade later this week," an almost definite nod to GPT-5.
So, why has the possible release of the model been making headlines for months? Here's everything you need to know, updated with the latest information as we know it.
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