ChatGPT-5 Is Here: What It Can Do

Yesterday (August 7, 2025), OpenAI's CEO Sam Altman and his team presented the latest version of ChatGPT: ChatGPT-5. We all have been waiting for this release for a long time and now it's finally here. GPT-5 takes things to a whole new level. It's like moving from having a bright college student helping you to having an entire team of PhD-level experts in your pocket, ready to help with anything at any time.

Screenshot from OpenAI’s ChatGPT-5 Summer Update presentation, used for commentary purposes.

What makes ChatGPT-5 special?

Instead of making you choose between fast answers or deep thinking, GPT-5 automatically figures out how much “brainpower” your question needs. That means:

• Quick, snappy replies for simple questions.

• Slower, more thoughtful deep-dives for complex challenges.

It’s like having a super-smart assistant who knows exactly when to think fast and when to think hard.

The Cool New Features You’ll Actually Use

After having watched, OpenAI's presentation, here are a few things that stood out to me:

• Smarter help in everyday life: Whether you’re planning a party, organising your work week, learning a language, or even making health decisions, GPT-5 gives you accurate, clear, and context-aware advice.

• Programming code: You can literally ask ChatGPT-5 to build you a complete app or website from scratch even if you don’t know a single line of code. It creates functional, beautiful, and interactive tools in minutes. It even reviews its own code and improves on it. It is truly mind-blowing. In my opinion, ChatGPT-5's impressive programming capabilities raises the question about the future of programmers, but I will leave it to you to draw your own conclusions. In the presentation, OpenAI also presented a demo in which ChatGPT-5 was asked to build a dashboard for a CFO. Here's a picture - a truly amazing outcome:

Screenshot from OpenAI’s ChatGPT-5 Summer Update presentation, used for commentary purposes. ChatGPT-5 created this picture when tasked to build a financial dashboard for a CFO.

• The new study mode: Another standout addition in GPT-5 is its new study mode, which transforms ChatGPT from a simple Q&A tool into an interactive personal tutor. In this mode, GPT-5 can guide you step-by-step through a subject, explain concepts in plain language, quiz you to check your understanding, and adapt the difficulty based on your progress. Paired with the upgraded voice features, it can even role-play real-life scenarios like practising a language conversation at both slow, clear speeds and natural, fast-paced speech. Whether you’re preparing for an exam, learning a new skill, or just exploring a topic out of curiosity, study mode makes learning more engaging, personalised, and effective.

• Creative learning tools: From interactive science demos to custom quizzes, it makes learning engaging and easy to understand.

• Voice & vision upgrades: You can talk to it naturally, and it can now “see” what you see through your smartphone's camera, making interactions far more intuitive.

• Far superior agentive AI: GPT-5 takes agentic AI far beyond GPT-4 because it is better at planning and decision-making, it is better at long-running workflows, and it is able to self-improve during execution. This is a separate topic which we will write a separate blog post about.

• More personalised than ever: GPT-5 can remember your preferences, integrate with Gmail and Google Calendar, and even adjust its personality to be more professional, supportive, or witty (whatever suits you).

• Safer, more reliable answers: OpenAI has worked hard to reduce “hallucinations” (those occasional confident-but-wrong answers) and to handle sensitive questions more responsibly.

Why This Matters

ChatGPT-5 shows just how quickly AI is becoming a deeply integrated part of our daily lives. Tasks that used to take hours (or even days) can now be done in minutes. Barriers to creativity, learning, and problem-solving are falling away.

I truly believe we’re looking at a future where having access to AI like GPT-5 will feel as normal as having a smartphone. And just like smartphones, it’s going to change the way we work, learn, and connect with each other.

Final Thought

If GPT-4 was impressive, GPT-5 feels transformational. It’s faster, smarter, more creative, and more personal.

Note: This article was created with the assistance of AI tools and reviewed by our editorial team for accuracy and clarity.