OpenAI’s GPT-5, an AI model everyone seemed to be waiting for, goes Live

OpenAI’s new flagship model, GPT-5, is now rolling out to users and developers. The much awaited step forward in the world of artificial intelligence (AI) comes as the AI company also flexes its 700 million active weekly user base, with an insistence that the new model is better at accuracy, speed, reasoning, context recognition, structured thinking, and problem-solving, than anything which preceded it. The real utility is expected to be derived from business and enterprise use cases — and since hardly anything AI goes by without a mention of it, ‘agentic’ utility too.

This is the “PhD-level intelligence” model that OpenAI executives have spoken about over recent months. “Making this available in the free tier is a big deal to us — PhD-level intelligence for everyone. Plus users get much higher rate limits.