OpenAI's ChatGPT 5 Set for Imminent Summer Release, Promising AI Leap Forward

San Francisco, July 21, 2025 – OpenAI is on the cusp of unveiling ChatGPT 5, powered by the highly anticipated GPT-5 model, with industry insiders and company hints pointing to a launch as early as this month or mid-summer. CEO Sam Altman confirmed in a June 2025 YouTube podcast that GPT-5 would arrive "this summer," following the February rollout of GPT-4.5, codenamed Orion, which served as the last non-reasoning-focused model. explodingtopics.com This comes amid delays to OpenAI's open-weights model for additional safety testing, but GPT-5 remains on track to unify the company's tech stack.techcrunch.com Building on GPT-4.5's advancements in unsupervised...