OpenAI Aims for August Launch of GPT‑5, Promising Unified, Multimodal AI Power

OpenAI is gearing up to launch GPT‑5 in August 2025, according to multiple media reports. The upcoming model is expected to unify capabilities from its existing o-series reasoning models and GPT-series multimodal systems—providing seamless support for text, image, voice, code, and video processing.

CEO Sam Altman shared on X that GPT‑5 will be “soon” and hinted that its core capabilities aren’t based on the recent International Math Olympiad–level LLM, though that achievement reflects future directions.

“We think you will love GPT‑5, but we don’t plan to release a model with IMO gold‑level capability for many months,” he added.

The new model is expected to launch in three consumer tiers—main, mini, and nano—with API access available for developers; the nano tier may be API-only.

GPT‑5 is anticipated to feature:

• Unified architecture combining reasoning and multimodal capabilities
• A vast context window far beyond GPT‑4o’s 128K tokens
• Integration with Sora, Canvas tools, and enhanced chain-of-thought reasoning
• A more simplified offering aimed at eliminating confusion between model versions

While technical specifics remain scarce, the release is positioned as OpenAI’s next major leap forward toward artificial general intelligence—though Altman warned that broader rollout may still take months due to safety verification and testing cycles.

As the AI race intensifies, GPT‑5's arrival could reassert OpenAI's leadership in large-scale, multimodal AI systems.