OpenAI's GPT-5 is free to use right now. How to try it.

The newest version of ChatGPT is here and you can try it with very little effort.

Sam Altman and co. held an announcement livestream on Thursday to show off GPT-5, while also announcing that the new model would be rolling out immediately to basically everyone, including free users. OpenAI also updated its website with a lot of information about the new model, and that page includes a "Try now" button that just takes you to the default ChatGPT starting page.

So, does that mean you can just use GPT-5 right now? The answer is "sort of." According to Wired, "most users" will now experience a version of ChatGPT that automatically chooses the right model based on the complexity of what you asked it to do, rather than asking users to choose a model themselves. That means it's a little harder than it would've been previously to just test out the new model on purpose.

In my testing, I asked ChatGPT if it was using GPT-5 right now and was told that the model hasn't been released yet. It seems that, at the time of publication, GPT-5 hasn't quite rolled out yet. But when it does, the way to try it will be to just, well, try it.