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OpenAI's livestream at 10 AM PT/1 PM ET will likely launch GPT-5.
GPT-5 will automatically select the best model for prompts, improving efficiency.
That approach should help produce higher-quality answers more quickly.
OpenAI just launched its highly anticipated open-source models on Tuesday, but the company is already moving on to what will likely be its biggest product launch of the year: GPT-5.
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While speculation about GPT-5 isn't new, there have been easter eggs nearly confirming that the release is taking place today. For starters, OpenAI cleverly wrote in an X post, "LIVE5TREAM THURSDAY 10AM PT" -- replacing the "S" in livestream with the number five.
Then, in an even more obvious post, OpenAI shared a video on a video on X that said, "Dropping soon," showing the "4" in GPT-4o moving on a dial to reveal the bottom of what looks like a five, as seen below.
Beyond OpenAI's own teasing, several leaks from other companies confirm the timeline. First spotted by The Verge, Redditors noticed that GitHub accidentally announced OpenAI's GPT-5 models in a now-deleted blog post. The post revealed that the family of models would include "gpt-5, gpt-5-mini, gpt-5-nano, and gpt-5-chat." Earlier this week, AI platform Flowith teased that GPT-5 is coming soon under its model picker.
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