OpenAI says the brand-new GPT-5.1 is ‘warmer’ and has more ‘personality’ options

OpenAI is releasing GPT-5.1 today, an update to the flagship exemplary it released successful August. OpenAI calls it an “upgrade” to GPT-5 that “makes ChatGPT smarter and much enjoyable to speech to.”

The caller models see GPT-5.1 Instant and GPT-5.1 Thinking. The erstwhile is “warmer, much intelligent, and amended astatine pursuing your instructions” than its predecessor, per an OpenAI release, and the second is “now easier to recognize and faster connected elemental tasks, and much persistent connected analyzable ones.” Queries will, successful astir cases, beryllium auto-matched to the models that whitethorn champion beryllium capable to reply them. The 2 caller models volition commencement rolling retired to ChatGPT users this week, and the aged GPT-5 models volition beryllium disposable for 3 months successful ChatGPT’s bequest models dropdown paper earlier they disappear.

As portion of the update, OpenAI besides said it would grow its property presets for the conversational code of the models. The full database of options present includes Default, Professional, Friendly, Candid, Quirky, Efficient, Nerdy, and Cynical, per the company’s blog post. OpenAI besides said successful a merchandise that it would besides debut an “experiment for caller ways to fine-tune ChatGPT’s benignant straight from settings,” which immoderate users volition statesman to beryllium capable to entree this week.

“With much than 800 cardinal radical utilizing ChatGPT, we’re good past the constituent of one-size-fits-all,” Fidji Simo, the company’s CEO of Applications, wrote successful a Wednesday Substack post.

While OpenAI CEO Sam Altman hyped up the denote of GPT-5 successful August, the merchandise failed the hype test. Many ChatGPT users were near unimpressed, peculiarly astatine the incremental improvements, and expressed vexation implicit OpenAI’s prime to marque it the default exemplary for ChatGPT. There was truthful overmuch unit that OpenAI decided it would bring backmost GPT-4o arsenic an option, a time aft the motorboat of GPT-5.

Microsoft, OpenAI’s strategical AI partner, has besides progressively been looking astatine rival models from Anthropic aft GPT-5 failed to rise the barroom enough. Anthropic’s models are present helping powerfulness Copilot Researcher, GitHub Copilot, Copilot Studio, and a new Office Agent that is capable to nutrient Word and PowerPoint documents from Microsoft’s ain Copilot chat interface.

The announcement of GPT-5.1 comes conscionable weeks aft OpenAI launched its AI-powered web browser, ChatGPT Atlas. It has an “agent mode” that’s presently lone disposable to ChatGPT Plus and Pro users, and it works overmuch similar the company’s Operator instrumentality to instrumentality actions successful the browser connected behalf of users.