8 August 2025
Topic: Models_And_Releases
![Today, GPT-5 launches across our platforms, including Microsoft 365 Copilot, Copilot, GitHub Copilot and Azure AI Foundry. It’s the most capable model yet from our partners at OpenAI, bringing powerful new advances in reasoning, coding and chat, all trained on Azure. [see more]](https://media.licdn.com/dms/image/sync/v2/D5627AQFuhnJ8zX6aOQ/articleshare-shrink_800/B56ZiFfcEBHUAI-/0/1754586268495?e=2147483647&v=beta&t=MW1gxbl7vH0rRJRKYeDyh5qKgwkx459M1An8bFf8gJ8)
Today, GPT-5 launches across our platforms, including Microsoft 365 Copilot, Copilot, GitHub Copilot and Azure AI Foundry. It’s the most capable model yet from our partners at OpenAI, bringing powerful new advances in reasoning, coding and chat, all trained on Azure. [see more]
The post Today, GPT-5 launches across our platforms, including Microsoft 365 Copilot, Copilot, GitHub Copilot and Azure AI Foundry. It’s the most capa...
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GPT-5, the latest AI model from OpenAI, launches across Microsoft platforms, including Microsoft 365 Copilot and Azure AI Foundry, marking a significant advancement in reasoning, coding, and chat capabilities.
Key Takeaways:
Key Takeaways:
- GPT-5 is the most capable model yet, offering powerful new advances in reasoning, coding, and chat.
- It's been two and a half years since GPT-4 was first introduced, and the pace of progress is accelerating.
- This breakthrough has the potential to drive significant innovation in AI, with developers, enterprises, and consumers eager to utilize its capabilities.
Elad Gil — one of tech’s sharpest minds — on early bets, breakout growth, and what’s coming next at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025
Elad Gil isn’t just ahead of the curve — he practically lives there. Before most of the world had even asked ChatGPT its first question, Gil was writi...
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Elad Gil, a renowned Silicon Valley investor, shares his insights on early-stage investing and new frontier technologies at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025.
Key Takeaways:
Key Takeaways:
- Gil has a track record of investing in over 30 unicorns and has been involved in iconic companies like Stripe, Airbnb, and Coinbase.
- He will cover his approach to spotting breakout potential early and how he sees the next big wave of innovation in AI, crypto, health tech, and enterprise SaaS.
- Gil's fireside chat at Disrupt 2025 promises to offer valuable takeaways for startup leaders and investors, with a focus on early-stage investing and new frontier technologies.
New ‘persona vectors’ from Anthropic let you decode and direct an LLM’s personality
A new study from Anthropic introduces "persona vectors," a technique for developers to monitor, predict and control unwanted LLM behaviors....
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Researchers from the Anthropic Fellows Program have developed a technique called 'persona vectors' to identify and control character traits in large language models.
Key Takeaways:
Key Takeaways:
- Persona vectors can be used to monitor and predict model behavior, and to prevent unwanted personality traits from developing during fine-tuning.
- The technique can find issues in training datasets that other methods may miss, and allows developers to screen data before fine-tuning.
- Persona vectors can be used to 'vaccinate' models against learning bad traits from training data, and can help to improve the stability and predictability of AI assistants.
Google takes on ChatGPT’s Study Mode with new ‘Guided Learning’ tool in Gemini
Google is also offering students in the U.S., Japan, Indonesia, Korea, and Brazil a free one-year subscription to its AI Pro plan....
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Google introduces Guided Learning in Gemini, an AI tool designed to help users build deep understanding instead of just getting answers.
Key Takeaways:
Key Takeaways:
- Gemini will break down problems step-by-step and adapt explanations to users' needs, responding with images, diagrams, videos, and interactive quizzes.
- Google aims to address concerns that AI chatbots undermine learning by positioning its chatbot as a learning tool rather than a simple answer engine.
- Google is also offering students in select countries a free one-year subscription to its AI Pro plan with expanded access to Gemini 2.5 Pro and other tools.
New Gemini app tools to help students learn, understand and study even better
Try these new tools to learn, study and understand complex topics even better....
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Google announces a free one-year subscription to its AI Pro plan and new learning tools in the Gemini app to help students level up their learning.
Key Takeaways:
Key Takeaways:
- New learning tools in Gemini include Guided Learning, integrated visuals, and exam prep features.
- The free AI Pro plan upgrade comes with 2 TB of storage, expanded access to Gemini 2.5 Pro, and additional advanced AI tools like Deep Research and Jules.
- Students in the U.S. and several countries (Japan, Indonesia, Korea, and Brazil) can sign up for the free AI Pro Plan offer.
GPT-5 is being released to all ChatGPT users
OpenAI is releasing GPT-5, its new flagship model, to all of its ChatGPT users and developers. CEO Sam Altman says GPT-5 is a dramatic leap from OpenA...
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OpenAI releases GPT-5, its new flagship model, to all of its ChatGPT users and developers, claiming it's the 'best model in the world' at coding and writing.
Key Takeaways:
Key Takeaways:
- GPT-5 shows significant improvements over previous models, offering smarter, faster, and more accurate responses.
- The model uses a router that automatically switches to a reasoning version for complex queries, improving its ability to handle multi-step tasks and reduce hallucinations.
- However, GPT-5 still requires caution, as it can confidently lie or provide safe completions that might enable malicious activity.
Kitten TTS: 25MB CPU-Only, Open-Source Voice Model
Article URL: https://algogist.com/kitten-tts-the-25mb-ai-voice-model-thats-about-to-change-everything-runs-on-a-potato/ Comments URL: https://news.yco...
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Kitten TTS: A 15M-parameter, <25 MB text-to-speech model that runs on CPUs without requiring GPUs, enabling efficient edge AI and accessibility applications.
Key Takeaways:
Key Takeaways:
- Achieves impressive quality with a tiny number of parameters (15M), rendering it suitable for edge AI and accessibility applications.
- Runs efficiently on low-end edge devices such as Raspberry Pi and can also be deployed on a wide range of hardware, including smartphones.
- Released under the permissive Apache 2.0 license, allowing for ease of development and deployment in both personal and commercial projects.
GPT-5: Key characteristics, pricing and system card
System card: https://cdn.openai.com/pdf/8124a3ce-ab78-4f06-96eb-49ea29ffb... Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44827794 Points: 210 #...
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OpenAI's GPT-5 model family offers improved performance, reduced hallucinations, and competitive pricing, making it a valuable addition to the company's lineup of AI models.
Key Takeaways:
Key Takeaways:
- GPT-5 models are aggressively priced, with costs ranging from $0.05/million for GPT-5 Nano to $1.25/million for GPT-5.
- The new models have demonstrated impressive reductions in hallucinations, with a focus on training data browsing and factual accuracy.
- GPT-5 also features safe-completions, a safety-training approach designed to minimize the risk of harm or misinformation in assisted conversations.
Microsoft brings GPT-5 to Copilot with new smart mode
OpenAI officially launched its new GPT-5 models today, and Microsoft is now bringing GPT-5 to Copilot, Microsoft 365 Copilot, Azure AI Foundry, GitHub...
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Microsoft introduces GPT-5 to Copilot, Microsoft 365 Copilot, Azure AI Foundry, and GitHub Copilot, enabling enhanced reasoning and code quality.
Key Takeaways:
Key Takeaways:
- GPT-5 is designed for logic and multi-step tasks, with improvements in reasoning and code quality.
- Microsoft 365 Copilot users will benefit from GPT-5's ability to reason through complex questions and stay on track in longer conversations.
- GitHub is bringing GPT-5 to all paid GitHub Copilot plans, allowing developers to test code writing improvements to OpenAI's latest model.
OpenAI teases GPT-5 launch event this Thursday
OpenAI is teasing a big announcement on Thursday, and based on a not-so-subtle clue, it seems like it will be the reveal of its long-awaited GPT-5 AI ...
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OpenAI is teasing the launch of its GPT-5 AI model, with an event scheduled for this Thursday, which is rumored to offer significant improvements.
Key Takeaways:
Key Takeaways:
- OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has hinted at the release of GPT-5 in recent statements.
- Reports suggest that Microsoft has been preparing server capacity for the new model.
- GPT-5 is expected to offer significant improvements over its predecessor, but the exact details of its capabilities remain unclear.
Jules, our asynchronous coding agent, is now available for everyone.
Jules is officially out of beta and launching publicly, powered by Gemini 2.5.During the beta, thousands of developers tackled tens of thousands of ta...
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Google's Jules, a code completion tool, officially launches out of beta, featuring improved capabilities and structured tiers with higher limits for subscribers.
Key Takeaways:
Key Takeaways:
- Over 140,000 code improvements were shared publicly by developers during the Jules beta phase.
- Jules now uses the advanced thinking capabilities of Gemini 2.5 Pro to develop coding plans, resulting in higher-quality code outputs.
- Structured tiers for Jules include higher limits* for Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers, with 5x and 20x higher limits, respectively.
Microsoft makes OpenAI’s new open model available on Windows
OpenAI released a new free and open GPT model yesterday that can run on a PC, and now Microsoft is making that easy to do for Windows users. The light...
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Microsoft has made OpenAI's new lightweight open model, gpt-oss-20b, available on Windows for easy local use, with macOS support coming soon.
Key Takeaways:
Key Takeaways:
- The model runs on a PC or laptop with at least 16GB of VRAM, and is optimized for code execution and tool use.
- It's perfect for building autonomous assistants or embedding AI into real-world workflows, even in bandwidth-constrained environments.
- Microsoft's addition of the gpt-oss-20b model to the Windows AI Foundry comes as Amazon quickly adopted the new open-weight GPT-OSS models for its cloud services.
OpenAI’s open‑source model: gpt‑oss on Azure AI Foundry and Windows AI Foundry
The post OpenAI’s open‑source model: gpt‑oss on Azure AI Foundry and Windows AI Foundry appeared first on Source....
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Microsoft introduces gpt-oss, open-weight models for AI customization, available on Azure AI Foundry and Windows AI Foundry.
Key Takeaways:
Key Takeaways:
- gpt-oss models offer up to 120 billion parameters and architectural sparsity for efficient performance.
- These models can be fine-tuned, distilled, and optimized for domain-specific use cases, enabling flexible deployment across cloud, edge, and local environments.
- The availability of gpt-oss on Azure and Windows unlocks competitive performance with transparency and control for developers and decision-makers alike.
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🚀 Qwen3-4B-Thinking-2507 released!
Huihui released GPT-OSS 20b abliterated
Just when you thought Qwen was done...
OpenAI did not use their most advanced model to make this graph
Nonescape: SOTA AI-Image Detection Model (Open-Source)
[D] Unsaturated Evals before GPT5
The Hype of Google Genie 3 is already bigger than of OpenAI OSS
You can now run OpenAI's gpt-oss model at home!
Qwen3-4B-Thinking-2507 and Qwen3-4B-Instruct-2507
Type a sentence and Google Genie 3 creates an entire world to explore. When you step into a puddle, it splashes. Robots are now trained in simulated worlds like these.
Some people still claim "LLMs just predict text" but OpenAI researcher says this is now "categorically wrong"
Evolution Tree of Encoder / Decoder / Encoder-Decoder Models.
You can now run OpenAI's gpt-oss model on your laptop! (12B RAM min.)
What Are Your Expectations for GPT-5 This Thursday at 10 AM PT?
Just a reminder that the context window in ChatGPT Plus is still 32k…
GPT-5 UPDATE
It's 2025 already, and LLMs still mess up whether 9.11 or 9.9 is bigger.
Caught ChatGPT Lying
OpenAI's new open-source model is o3 level.
Soon, something smarter than anyone you know will be in your pocket
GPT-OSS 120B and 20B feel kind of… bad?
GPT OSS not as good as o4-mini, however, the intelligence to price ratio is insane
llama.cpp HQ
Opus 4.1 still not 100% reliable
GPT 5 Rumored Benchmark through Copilot
GPT-OSS looks more like a publicity stunt as more independent test results come out :(
Opus 4.1 Strict Emoji Usage Rules
GPT-5 usage limits
This might be one of the most awkward and stilted tech presentations ever put on the internet
Remember this?
Can someone please explain these graphs from the GPT-5 intro video
That’s.. it?
Lol, did GPT-5 make this graph? This is beyond pathetic.