OpenAI has again confirmed that it will unify multiple models into one and create GPT-5, which is expected to ship sometime in the summer.

ChatGPT currently has too many capable models for different tasks. While the models are powerful, it can be confusing because all models have identical names.

But another issue is that OpenAI maintains an “o” lineup for reasoning capabilities, while the 4o and other models have multi-modality.

With GPT-5, OpenAI plans to unify the breakthrough in its lineup and deliver the best of the two worlds.

“We’re truly excited to not just make a net new great frontier model, we’re also going to unify our two series,” says Romain Huet, OpenAI’s Head of Developer Experience.

“The breakthrough of reasoning in the O-series and the breakthroughs in multi-modality in the GPT-series will be unified, and that will be GPT-5. And I really hope I’ll come back soon to tell you more about it.”

OpenAI previously claimed that GPT-5 will also make the existing models significantly better at everything.

“GPT-5 is our next foundational model that is meant to just make everything our models can currently do better and with less model switching,” Jerry Tworek, who is a VP at OpenAI, wrote in a Reddit post.

Right now, we don’t know when GPT-5 will begin rolling out to everyone, but Sam Altman suggests it’s coming in the summer.