OpenAI has released the latest edition of its bestselling generative artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot with ChatGPT 5 and it might just have a stronger focus towards India. Sam Altman, the CEO of the company, said at the launch that India is now the second-largest market for OpenAI after the US and may even become the largest in the future.
ChatGPT 5 is said to be a big leap over its previous edition. It is being compared to a PhD level assistant. The company wrote on its website that it outperforms previous models and is faster. “We’ve made significant advances in reducing hallucinations, improving instruction following, and minimizing sycophancy, while leveling up GPT 5’s performance in three of ChatGPT’s most common uses: writing, coding, and health,” it added.
Hallucination is the predilection for such chatbots to make up false information because they have to come up with an answer they don’t know.
With ChatGPT 5, OpenAI says that the chances of hallucination is 45 per cent less likely to happen than the earlier GPT-4o model. The base version of ChatGPT 5 is already available for free. Paid subscribers get a better performing model and greater access time.
AI Doc in Space
Google and NASA are developing an AI medical assistant for astronauts in deep-sea missions. Called the Crew Medical Officer Digital Assistant, it is meant to help astronauts diagnose and treat symptoms when a doctor is not available. According to Google, it is currently being tested using a clinical framework designed to assess the performance of medical students.
Gemini’s Pessimism
Many users in recent months have reported having strange conversations with Google’s Gemini. The AI assistant, users shared, sometimes gets fixated by its own errors, insists that its code was cursed, or that the task was impossible to achieve. Sometimes, it threatened to delete the work beind done. According to Google, an “annoying infinite looping bug” is behind this, and that a fix is underway.
Factory Robots
In a sign that the commercial adoption of robotics is gaining pace, Chinese robotics firm AgiBot has said that it is deploying around 100 robots across the factories of car parts maker Fulin Precision. The firm will deploy A2-W robots, designed for tasks such as loading, unloading and transport. The robots will free humans to focus on higher-value operations, a firm executive said.
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