Big news from the world of Artificial Intelligence! Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, just dropped some exciting updates about their next-generation AI model, likely called $GPT-5$. He also shared a huge achievement: they’ve created an AI that’s as good as a gold-medal-winning human at one of the world’s hardest math competitions.
An AI That’s a Math Genius
Imagine the toughest math competition for high school students on the planetâthat’s the International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO). OpenAI announced that they built an AI system that reached a “gold medal level performance” on the 2025 IMO competition.
What makes this special? Sam Altman emphasized that this isn’t just a fancy calculator designed only for math. It’s a
general-purpose reasoning system, meaning it’s a Large Language Model (LLM) that can think and solve problems, much like the main ChatGPT we use today. This is a major step toward OpenAI’s ultimate goal of creating “general intelligence,” or an AI that can understand and learn any task a human can.
For Altman and the OpenAI team, this was a dream that once felt out of reach. It shows just how far AI has come in the last ten years.
So, When is GPT-5 Coming?
Here’s the part everyone is waiting for:
GPTâ5 is being released “soon”.
However, Altman was quick to set clear expectations. The version of
GPTâ5 coming soon will be an experimental model. It will use new research techniques that OpenAI will build on for future models. While he thinks we will “love” it, the super-powerful, math-genius AI that aced the IMO test won’t be available to the public for many months.
So, we’re getting a sneak peek at the future, but not the final, most powerful version just yet.
Clues and Leaks Emerge
Adding to the excitement, tech enthusiasts have spotted what appears to be GPTâ5 being tested in the wild. A new model named
“gpt-5-reasoning-alpha-2025-07-13” showed up in a technical log file called a “benchmark commit”.
Think of a benchmark as an exam for AIs. Developers run these tests to see how well their models perform on different tasks. The name “reasoning-alpha” suggests this is an early (“alpha”) version focused on improving the AI’s ability to think and reason logically, which lines up perfectly with the news about the math competition breakthrough. This sighting confirms that
GPTâ5 is actively being developed and tested behind the scenes.