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In brief OpenAI unveiled GPT‑5 today during a livestream event, following weeks of speculation. The company released two open-weight models earlier this week. After weeks of speculation, OpenAI unveiled the next generation of its flagship AI model, GPT‑5. The new model, which creates a simpler interface to the world’s most popular AI platform, arrives amid mounting pressure from rivals like Meta, Anthropic, and Google. “GPT is a significant upgrade over GPT-4 and a significant step along the path to AGI,” CEO Sam Altman said, noting that among other things, GPT-5 can “write a software program from scratch.  We think this idea of software on demand will be a defining characteristic of the GPT-5 era.” The new model wrote over 400 lines of code in two minutes, in a “zero shot” example from a prompt asking it to do a simulation of the Bernoulli effect. One unexpected disappointment: though the new model has a 400K token context window, which is about four times more than GPT-4, it still pales in comparison against Claude or Gemini, which can handle over 1 million tokens of context. This is significant because token-context-window size determines how much information a language model can “remember” and work with in a single interaction—things like documents, codebases, long conversations, or research papers. Claude 3 and Gemini 1.5 already support over 1 million tokens, making OpenAI’s new model feel like it’s catching up, not leapfrogging. Claude can take in an entire book series, dense research archives, or huge code repositories and still give coherent, context-aware responses. GPT-5 did offer a raft of new features, including a video option in which it can watch you while you chat (or anything else via your camera). Likewise, next week, the company will begin allowing users to integrate their Gmail and Google Calendars. The…

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