OpenAI is teasing a big announcement on Thursday, and judging by the not-so-subtle hint, it will be the unveiling of the long-awaited GPT-5 AI model. OpenAI posted on X, “LIVE5TREAM THURSDAY 10AM PT” – note that the “s” in livestream has been replaced with a “5”.
Several recent signs point to an imminent release. On Sunday, Open AI CEO Sam Altman posted a screenshot with “ChatGPT 5” in the upper left corner, and the company’s head of applied research wrote on Monday that he was “excited to see how the public will receive GPT-5!” And last month, Altman said that OpenAI plans to release GPT-5 “soon.”
The Verge’s Tom Warren reported last month that OpenAI plans to launch GPT-5 in early August, and last February he wrote that Microsoft is preparing server capacity for the new model.
The potential release of GPT-5 will add to an already big week for OpenAI, which on Tuesday announced GPT-OSS, a free, open-weight model that can run on your laptop.
