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ZDNET's Key takeaways:
Apple Intelligence will be upgraded with GPT-5.
GPT-5 is OpenAI's recently launched most capable model.
Users will be able to access GPT-5 in iOS 26, iPadOS 26, and macOS 26.
OpenAI released GPT-5 on Thursday, saying it's the company's most capable, smartest, and fastest model to date. While everyone, including free users, can access the model for free today via ChatGPT, Apple device users will be able to try it out even more easily.
Apple's first foray into the AI race was the launch of Apple Intelligence in 2024. Taking its time to enter the AI space, the company took a different approach from competitors, forgoing the release of its own AI models and choosing to use OpenAI's instead via an integration with ChatGPT. Soon, that integration will use GPT-5.
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Apple confirmed to me that the iOS 26, iPadOS 26, and MacOS 26 operating systems, which are slated to launch in the fall, will be accompanied by GPT-5. Currently, with the existing ChatGPT integration, Apple users have the option to send Siri queries to ChatGPT instead if they're better suited for the chatbot's capabilities.
Other integrations are ChatGPT with Writing Tools, which uses the chatbot to compose text or images in different areas of the interface, and ChatGPT with Visual Intelligence, which leverages ChatGPT's multimodal capabilities to give users insights into their surroundings. Because of the update, all of the aforementioned functionalities should give users better answers.
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