The newest version of ChatGPT is here and you can try it with very little effort.
Sam Altman and co. held an announcement livestream on Thursday to show off GPT-5, while also announcing that the new model would be rolling out immediately to basically everyone, including free users. OpenAI also updated its website with a lot of information about the new model, and that page includes a “Try now” button that just takes you to the default ChatGPT starting page.
So, does that mean you can just use GPT-5 right now? The answer is “sort of.” According to Wired, “most users” will now experience a version of ChatGPT that automatically chooses the right model based on the complexity of what you asked it to do, rather than asking users to choose a model themselves. That means it’s a little harder than it would’ve been previously to just test out the new model on purpose.
Credit: Screenshot: OpenAI
In my testing, I asked ChatGPT if it was using GPT-5 right now and was told that the model hasn’t been released yet. It seems that, at the time of publication, GPT-5 hasn’t quite rolled out yet. But when it does, the way to try it will be to just, well, try it.
