OpenAI launches GPT-5 with business tools

San Francisco – August 7, 2025 OpenAI officially launched GPT-5 on Thursday, making the new model available to all 700 million ChatGPT users. The latest release is aimed at scaling business adoption while showing progress on high-level problem solving and software development.

"GPT-5 is really the first time that I think one of our mainline models has felt like you can ask a legitimate expert, a PhD-level expert, anything," said OpenAI CEO Sam Altman.

A Tool for the Enterprise

The company is highlighting GPT-5’s enterprise capabilities especially in coding, finance, writing, and even health-related queries. In demos, GPT-5 generated complete software projects from simple text prompts. OpenAI calls this trend "software on demand."

Altman believes this will define the next era. “One of the coolest things it can do is write you good instantaneous software,” he said during a press briefing.

A Crowded, Expensive Race

The release lands during an intense phase of spending across the tech sector. Companies like Microsoft, Alphabet, Meta, and Amazon are pouring a combined $400 billion this year into AI data centers and infrastructure.

OpenAI itself is reportedly in talks to allow employees to cash out shares at a $500 billion valuation—up from $300 billion earlier this year.

But experts question whether enterprise use cases can catch up to consumer excitement. “Business spending on AI has been pretty weak, while consumer usage has been fairly robust,” said economics commentator Noah Smith.

A Smaller Leap This Time?

While GPT-5 shows improvements in logic and technical problem-solving, early testers note that the upgrade from GPT-4 to GPT-5 feels smaller than past leaps.

GPT-4 passed simulated bar exams in the top 10%, while GPT-3.5 barely made it. GPT-5, however, appears more targeted toward specialized tasks.

Still, GPT-5 brings new architecture features. It uses something called "test-time compute" where the model spends more time reasoning through tough problems before answering. This method is now available to the public for the first time.

Not Quite Human Yet

Despite its advancements, GPT-5 cannot learn autonomously or improve on its own limiting it from reaching full human-level thinking.

Altman acknowledged this: "We need to build a lot more infrastructure globally to have AI locally available in all these markets."

Quick Reference: GPT-5 Launch Highlights