OpenAI CEO Sam Altman went so far as to call GPT-5 “the best model in the world.” That may be pride or hyperbole, as TechCrunch’s Maxwell Zeff reports that GPT-5 only slightly outperforms other leading AI models from Anthropic, Google DeepMind, and xAI on some key benchmarks, and slightly lags on others.

GPT-5 is more than an upgrade. It aims to be a single, smarter system that blends reasoning, multimodality, cost efficiency, and usability into one.

OpenAI has begun rolling out GPT-5, the latest iteration of its flagship language model, to all ChatGPT users.