OpenAI has released its long-awaited GPT-5 AI model, making it free to use for anybody as of today. The Sam Altman-led company calls it "Our smartest, fastest, and most useful model yet," making it "more useful responses across math,

The companies that make artificial intelligence chatbots are racing to make the apps seem smarter, make fewer mistakes, and handle more complicated tasks.

The GPT-5 launch comes as OpenAI faces increasing competition from Google's Gemini models, Anthropic's Claude family, and Meta's open-weight Llama models. OpenAI reports having 5 million paying business users and 4 million developers building on its API platform.