OpenAI is finally going to make ChatGPT a lot less confusing – and hints at a GPT-5 release window

• ChatGPT will one day unify all of OpenAI's LLMs
• GPT-5 will be free for all users with higher intelligence for paying subscribers
• As part of the unification process, OpenAI's o3 will no longer be available as a standalone model when GPT-5 launches

OpenAI CEO, Sam Altman, just revealed some major info on the future of ChatGPT that will see all GPT models including the upcoming GPT-5 unified without the need to pick a model for each occasion.

At the time of writing, you need to choose between different OpenAI models every time you use ChatGPT, whether that's GPT-4o for everyday tasks or a more focused reasoning model like o3-mini for problem-solving. But that could all be about to change according to Altman who promises a simplifying of ChatGPT that "just works".

On X, Altman said, "We want AI to “just work” for you ...