The rollout was even messy enough to spill into betting markets. One 27-year-old day trader, Foster McCoy, pocketed $10,000 in just a few hours by wagering that Google’s Gemini would beat GPT-5 in a popularity contest.

“We just launched ChatGPT Go in India, a new subscription tier that gives users in India more access to our most popular features: 10x higher message limits, 10x more image generations, 10x more file uploads, and 2x longer memory compared with our free tier. All for Rs. 399,” Turley said in a post on X.

The OpenAI CEO addressed GPT-5 backlash, the AI bubble—and why he’s willing to spend trillions of dollars to win.

The OpenAI CEO says some users miss ChatGPT's old overly supportive style, as the company rolls out GPT-5 with new personality modes.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says GPT-5 could save lives as a physician assistant and unlock a $100B business opportunity across industries by boosting productivity.

In response to a question about how AI works with today's legal system, Altman said one of the problems of not yet having a legal or policy framework for AI is that there's no legal confidentiality for users' conversations.

Altman said many people use ChatGPT "as a sort of therapist or life coach, even if they wouldn't describe it that way."

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman recently revealed that users are attached to GPT-5's predecessors for emotional support, further claiming that they've perhaps never experienced that before.