SAN FRANCISCO — Anticipation built for months among tech workers and artificial intelligence enthusiasts ahead of OpenAI’s next big upgrade to ChatGPT.

The company’s decision to christen the new system that would power the chatbot “GPT-5” encouraged comparisons with its release of GPT-4 in 2023, which stunned the tech world and set ChatGPT on course to win its current 700 million weekly users.

But after GPT-5 was finally released on Aug. 7 and as tech workers have tested it over the following days, the upgrade has struck some in the industry as a welcome improvement but not a great leap forward. Advertisement

On X, the AI industry’s favored online watering hole, tech workers posted screenshots showing that GPT-5 could do better than previous AI systems at tasks such as coding and colle

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