Top 5 features of OpenAI Chat GPT-5

Rolls out globally with smarter features and multimodal upgrades!

OpenAI’s GPT-5 is officially out, and everywhere. The new model is faster, sharper, and far less prone to pesky AI “hallucinations.” Touted as OpenAI’s most powerful language model yet, GPT-5 is tuned to be more intuitive, understand context like a pro, and handle voice, images, and real-time conversations with ease.

Sam Altman says it’s all about making the platform easier, quicker, and more accurate to use, whether you’re firing off a casual query or syncing it with your Gmail for scarily smart personal insights. Here are the top five features of GPT-5.

1. Google Apps and Services Integration

With GPT-5, ChatGPT can now hook directly into Gmail, Google Calendar, and soon Google Contacts, giving it a much deeper understanding of your schedule, messages, and connections. Once you link these accounts, the assistant can pull in relevant details, like flagging an important unread email, reminding you of an upcoming meeting, or suggesting the best time for a call, without you having to constantly feed it new prompts.

Crucially, all of this happens only with your explicit permission, and the AI won’t take actions like sending an email or editing your calendar unless you approve it. The result is a far more context-aware experience where ChatGPT feels less like a chatbot and more like a proactive digital PA.

2. Improved safety

OpenAI says GPT-5 is built to be not just smarter, but safer. Thanks to a new safe completion system, the model is better at steering conversations away from risky territory while still giving you the most helpful answer it can within safety limits. Instead of flatly refusing or awkwardly dodging tricky prompts, GPT-5 works to deliver a useful, relevant response, without crossing ethical or factual red lines. The aim is fewer dead-end chats, more constructive answers, and a better balance between openness and responsibility.

3. Custom looks and voices

ChatGPT-5 introduces fun new personalisation options, like customisable chat colours and selectable personalities (Cynic, Listener, Robot, Nerd). Voice Mode gets a makeover too with more expressive and versatile options, with the old Standard Voice Mode set to retire soon (around September 2025). You can also tweak the tone and style to match your mood, making conversations feel more “you.” Plus, paid users get higher usage limits, so you can talk to ChatGPT for longer without hitting a cap.

4. More helpful for writers

It can now shift tone, style, and structure with far more finesse, whether you’re aiming for headlines, a persuasive pitch, or a meaty long-form article. Plus, thanks to its expanded 128k token memory window, it can follow along with longer conversations and sprawling documents without losing the plot. That means it can help craft entire reports, blog series, or detailed creative pieces while keeping style, facts, and flow perfectly consistent.

5. More multi-modal than ever

Building on GPT-4o’s ability to work with text, voice, and images, GPT-5 can interpret charts, summarise photos of presentations, and engage in conversations that flow naturally across media, whether you’re speaking to it, typing, or sharing visuals. Thanks to improvements in its image and voice processing, it’s now more accurate, less prone to hallucinations, and better suited for everything from creative brainstorming to accessibility-focused tasks.

Also, it's described as the top performer across global AI benchmarks in maths, coding, image understanding, and even medical reasoning, gains you’ll notice in everyday problem-solving, creative work, and learning tasks.

Availability

The GPT-5 model is being made available to all ChatGPT users, including Free, Plus, Pro, and Team tiers, with higher usage limits unlocked for paying subscribers. The Free tier costs nothing but comes with daily usage caps, after which users are switched to a lighter “mini” model.

Plus subscribers pay $20 (approx. Rs.1700) per month for extended GPT-5 access, more generous limits, and early feature access. Pro subscribers, at $200 (approx. Rs. 17,500) per month, get unlimited GPT-5 usage, access to GPT-5 Pro for tougher queries, and advanced voice and reasoning tools. Team plans cost $25 (approx. Rs. 2190) per user per month (annual billing) or $30 (approx. Rs. 2620) monthly, adding collaboration features and admin controls.

Enterprise and Education accounts will gain access shortly after. Additionally, developers can tap into GPT-5 via the OpenAI API, and it’s also being integrated into Microsoft platforms like Azure AI Foundry and GitHub Copilot.