New Delhi, July 14 -- OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has hinted at a GPT-5 launch in the coming months, but a host of legal and corporate issues-not to mention lurking Chinese rivals-could steal its thunder. Whether GPT-5 proves a leap or just an upgrade will decide its place in the AI race.

OpenAI's most anticipated model is expected to advance reasoning, memory and adaptability through persistent (human-like long-term) memory, better navigation and more autonomous, agent-like behaviour-steps towards artificial general intelligence (AGI). GPT-5 may also unify reasoning and multimodal functions, handling text, images, audio and possibly video with longer context windows and a mixture-of-experts system (that activates only parts of a model needed ...