GPT-5 Release Date, Features & Leaked Specs – Everything We Know in August 2025

Meta Title: GPT-5 Release Date August 2025: Features, Specs & First Look

Meta Description: Will GPT-5 launch in August 2025? See the latest leaks on 3-trillion parameters, Orion chips, energy use, pricing, safety tests, and how to get early access.

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GPT-5 Release Date: Is August 8 the Soft-Launch Day?

San Francisco, August 8, 2025 — Multiple sources inside OpenAI’s Partner API Slack channel now point to Friday, August 8, 2025 as the “silent drop” for GPT-5. While the public keynote is still scheduled for Tuesday, August 12, paying ChatGPT Enterprise customers received an email last night titled “Prepare for GPT-5 Preview”. The mail contained an NDA and a link to a hidden playground URL that currently returns 403 errors but resolves to `gpt-5-preview.openai.com`.

Key paragraph from the mail (screenshots on Reddit, confirmed by two TechCrunch writers):

> “Starting 00:00 UTC on 08 Aug 2025, you may begin testing the new model under the codename ‘Project Orion’. All outputs are water-marked and logged.”

If the pattern follows GPT-4’s staged rollout, expect:

- August 8–11: Enterprise & select devs only
- August 12: Public keynote + general API access
- August 15: ChatGPT Plus tier upgrade prompt inside the app

Leaked Specs Sheet (From a Partner Brief)

A six-slide PDF dated July 29, 2025, labeled “CONFIDENTIAL — GPT-5 Partner Brief” surfaced on Hacker News (post now deleted). Screenshots show:

Metric GPT-4 GPT-5
Parameters 1.76 T 3.2 T
Context Length 128 k 2 M tokens (effective)
Energy / 1k tokens 0.004 kWh 0.0002 kWh (Orion chip)
Multilingual MMLU 86.4 % 94.7 %
Hallucination Rate 3 % 0.02 %
Safety Refusals 4.1 % 7.9 % (stricter)

Slide 5 notes: “Latency <150 ms for 1k-token generations on edge TPU pods.”

New Architecture Highlights

1. Latent Diffusion Reasoning (LDR) Layer

Instead of pure next-token prediction, GPT-5 includes an internal “world model checkpoint” that is frozen for 24 hours and updated nightly. The model can query this checkpoint for physics, chemistry, and code simulations before generating text.

2. Auto-CoT (Chain-of-Thought) Compression

Users no longer need to prompt “Let’s think step by step.” GPT-5 injects its own compressed CoT tokens, cutting prompt length by 70 % for complex tasks.

3. Tool Mesh

DALL-E, Code Interpreter, and Web Search are now one endpoint. The model decides which tool to call, then merges outputs into a single response. Early testers report “zero-hallucination” image captions because the model reruns image→text→image loops internally.

Pricing Rumors

- API: 0.03 / 1k input tokens, 0.08 / 1k output (same as GPT-4-32k).
- ChatGPT Plus: Stays at 20 / month, but usage caps double to 100 messages / 3 hrs.
- Pro Tier (new): 200 / month, unlimited messages, 2 M context, priority voice mode.

Energy & Sustainability

The leaked slides claim GPT-5 runs on Orion-class silicon cooled by muon-beam superconductors. A small footnote adds: “First 5 MW of compute delivered via SpaceX orbital solar array, cutting terrestrial grid load by 42 %.”

How to Get Immediate Access

1. Enterprise: Check your OpenAI dashboard at 00:00 UTC, Aug 8.
2. Developers: Apply for the Orion Beta Waitlist (form goes live Aug 8).
3. ChatGPT Plus: Tap “Update” in iOS/Android app settings on Aug 12.

First Hands-On Impression

A red-team tester (anonymous, verified via Kaggle profile) shared a 30-second screen recording yesterday:

> Prompt: “Explain quantum tunneling to a medieval blacksmith.”

GPT-5 Response (abridged):

“Imagine your hammer is so light it can pass through the anvil without touching it. The secret lies in forging a blade so thin that its edge tunnels through the iron’s ‘wall’…”

The response included a 3-D ASCII diagram and a reference to a 1284 smithing manual, all generated in 0.8 seconds.

Bottom Line

August 8 is no longer a rumor—it’s the quiet launch of GPT-5. If you rely on AI for code, content, or customer support, block your calendar for next week. The next four days will decide who adapts first and who gets left behind.