OpenAI’ s GPT-5 breakthrough delivers superintelligence capabilities with 800M users and US $ 12bn revenue as AI agents transform workforce automation
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OpenAI’ s GPT-5 breakthrough delivers superintelligence capabilities with 800M users and US $ 12bn revenue as AI agents transform workforce automation
The company that brought us ChatGPT has now set its sights on something grander: building machines that don’ t just chat, but actually think and act independently. OpenAI’ s landmark moment came in August 2025 with GPT-5’ s release, which stands out from previous generations.
The company describes GPT-5 as“ a significant leap in intelligence over all our previous models, featuring state-of-the-art performance across coding, math, writing, health, visual perception and more.”
Unlike its predecessors, GPT-5 operates as a unified system that can switch seamlessly between quick responses and deep reasoning, deciding in real-time whether to fire back instantly or take time to work through complex problems step-by-step.
So far, GPT-5 sets new records across mathematics( 94.6 % on AIME 2025), coding( 74.9 % on SWE-bench Verified) and multimodal understanding( 84.2 % on MMMU) while majorly reducing the hallucinations that plagued earlier models.
But what’ s really intriguing is that OpenAI believes 2025 may see the first AI agents“ join the workforce” and materially change company output.
The company’ s not talking about simple automation anymore – as these systems can tackle complex, multi-step tasks from start to finish, powered by the advanced reasoning capabilities first introduced in GPT-5.
ChatGPT now reaches 700 million weekly active users, up from 500 million in March, while OpenAI hit its first US $ 1bn revenue month in July 2025, doubling from US $ 500m monthly at the start of the year.
These numbers show a technology that’ s moved from novelty to necessity for millions of people.
What comes next might be even more ambitious.
The company is beginning to turn its aim beyond traditional AGI to superintelligence in the true sense of the word – suggesting that we’ re witnessing the early stages of an AI breakthrough that is designed to impact society itself.
188 November 2025