Updates to ChatGPT:
You can now choose between “Auto”, “Fast”, and “Thinking” for GPT-5. Most users will want Auto, but the additional control will be useful for some people.
Rate limits are now 3,000 messages/week with GPT-5 Thinking, and then extra capacity on GPT-5 Thinking mini after that limit. Context limit for GPT-5 Thinking is 196k tokens. We may have to update rate limits over time depending on usage.
4o is back in the model picker for all paid users by default. If we ever do deprecate it, we will give plenty of notice. Paid users also now have a “Show additional models” toggle in ChatGPT web settings which will add models like o3, 4.1, and GPT-5 Thinking mini. 4.5 is only available to Pro users—it costs a lot of GPUs.
We are working on an update to GPT-5’s personality which should feel warmer than the current personality but not as annoying (to most users) as GPT-4o. However, one learning for us from the past few days is we really just need to get to a world with more per-user customization of model personality.
gpt-oss is out!
we made an open model that performs at the level of o4-mini and runs on a high-end laptop (WTF!!)
(and a smaller one that runs on a phone).
super proud of the team; big triumph of technology.
agree with lots of what jensen has been saying about ai and jobs; there is a ton of stuff to do in the world.
people will
1) do a lot more than they could do before; ability and expectation will both go up
2) still care very much about other people and what they do
3) still be very driven by creating and being useful to others
for sure jobs will be very different, and maybe the jobs of the future will look like playing games to us today while still being very meaningful to those people of the future. (people of the past might say that about us.)
betting against human's ability to want more stuff, find new ways to play status games, ability to find new methods for creative expression, etc is always a bad bet. maybe human money and machine money will be totally different things, who knows, but we have a LOT of main character energy.
more to come.
Two updates you'll like—
📁 OpenAI o1 and o3-mini now support both file & image uploads in ChatGPT
⬆️ We raised o3-mini-high limits by 7x for Plus users to up to 50 per day
OPENAI ROADMAP UPDATE FOR GPT-4.5 and GPT-5:
We want to do a better job of sharing our intended roadmap, and a much better job simplifying our product offerings.
We want AI to “just work” for you; we realize how complicated our model and product offerings have gotten.
We hate the model picker as much as you do and want to return to magic unified intelligence.
We will next ship GPT-4.5, the model we called Orion internally, as our last non-chain-of-thought model.
After that, a top goal for us is to unify o-series models and GPT-series models by creating systems that can use all our tools, know when to think for a long time or not, and generally be useful for a very wide range of tasks.
In both ChatGPT and our API, we will release GPT-5 as a system that integrates a lot of our technology, including o3. We will no longer ship o3 as a standalone model.
The free tier of ChatGPT will get unlimited chat access to GPT-5 at the standard intelligence setting (!!), subject to abuse thresholds.
Plus subscribers will be able to run GPT-5 at a higher level of intelligence, and Pro subscribers will be able to run GPT-5 at an even higher level of intelligence. These models will incorporate voice, canvas, search, deep research, and more.
when we launched the openai pro plan in december i thought it was only a good deal for extreme power users.
now with the addition of 100 deep research queries per month, unlimited sora, unlimited chatgpt, o1 pro and more stuff to come, i think it is a great deal for many users!
today we launch deep research, our next agent.
this is like a superpower; experts on demand!
it can go use the internet, do complex research and reasoning, and give you back a report.
it is really good, and can do tasks that would take hours/days and cost hundreds of dollars.
We are proud to announce that OpenAI has signed an agreement with the U.S. National Laboratories to supercharge their scientific research using our latest reasoning models.
Sharing our technology with the nation’s top scientists aligns with our mission of building artificial general intelligence to benefit humanity, and we believe the U.S. government is a critical partner to achieve this goal.
The National Labs host approximately 15,000 scientists working across a wide range of disciplines to advance our understanding of nature and the universe.
Here are some key ways our most advanced models will be utilized:
- Accelerating the basic science that underpins U.S. global technological leadership
- Identifying new approaches to treating and preventing disease
- Enhancing cybersecurity and protecting the American power grid
- Achieving a new era of U.S. energy leadership by unlocking the full potential of natural resources and revolutionizing the nation’s energy infrastructure
- Improving U.S. security through improved detection of natural and man-made threats, such as biology and cyber, before they emerge
- Deepening our understanding of the forces that govern the universe, from fundamental mathematics to high-energy physics
o3-mini is out!
smart, fast model.
available in ChatGPT and API.
it can search the web, and it shows its thinking.
available to free-tier users! click the "reason" button.
with ChatGPT plus, you can select "o3-mini-high", which thinks harder and gives better answers.