ChatGPT 5, the highly anticipated version of the most popular generative artificial intelligence in the world, is on the verge of release, according to reports.

The details of ChatGPT’s latest update could be revealed during a livestream today run by the service’s producer, OpenAI.

Newsweek contacted OpenAI for more information on the new features via email.

Why It Matters

ChatGPT is the most widely recognized large language model (LLM) in the world, and leads the generative AI industry. Each update has added new capabilities and processing power, and has contributed to OpenAI becoming the benchmark for any AI performance. A new version of ChatGPT means that benchmark will raise even higher.

What To Know

The hotly-anticipated update is expected to be revealed “imminently,” according to early testers who spoke with Reuters.

The new update could be revealed during a livestream at 10 a.m. PT. OpenAI normally hosts livestream on its YouTube channel.

While details of the update are under wraps, the new version of ChatGPT has been hyped up by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman as a game changer in the LLM space.

Altman said in an interview with Theo Von that he felt “useless” when faced with the advancements his AI had made, and compared himself to Oppenheimer, who headed the team that built the first atomic bombs which were dropped in Japan 80 years ago, in 1945.

“I felt useless compared to the AI in this thing that I felt I should have been able to do, and I could not, and it was really hard. But the AI just did it like that. It was a weird feeling,” Altman said.

“There are moments in science when people gaze upon what they have created and ask, ‘What have we done?'”

The gap between the capabilities of ChatGPT-3 and the current model, ChatGPT-4, were significant, with the latter being able to pass a bar exam in the top ten percent, while the previous version scraped a pass in the bottom ten.

However, early testers told Reuters that the leap from GPT-4 to GPT-5 is not as large as the one from GPT-3 to GPT-4.

What People Are Saying

Fidji Simo, OpenAI’s incoming CEO of Applications, said in an open letter: “Every major technology shift can expand access to power—the power to make better decisions, shape the world around us, and control our own destiny in new ways. But it can also further concentrate wealth and power in the hands of a few—usually people who already have money, credentials, and connections.

“That’s why we have to be intentional about how we build and share these technologies so they lead to greater opportunity and prosperity for more people. The choices we make today will shape whether the coming transformation leads to greater empowerment for all, or greater concentration of wealth and power for the few.”

What Happens Next

All new LLMs will be compared to the new version of ChatGPT, regardless of when it launches. OpenAI is still considered the leader of the AI race by many, and ChatGPT continues to be the most widely-used LLM.