OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has acknowledged the mistakes made by the AI startup during its latest GPT-5 model rollout. Notably, soon after the rollout, OpenAI had discontinued all its previous models, leading to a barrage of criticism from existing users and threats of subscription cancellations.
The ChatGPT maker soon realized its mistake and began providing GPT-4o — the model that previously powered the chatbot — to class=”backlink” target=”_blank” href=”https://www.livemint.com/technology/tech-news/why-chatgpt-plus-users-think-gpt-5-is-a-downgrade-and-how-openai-is-trying-to-win-them-back-sam-altman-11754885408001.html” data-vars-page-type=”story” data-vars-link-type=”Manual” data-vars-anchor-text=”ChatGPT Plus”>ChatGPT Plus users, while also offering additional rate limits for GPT-5 Standard and Thinking models.
OpenAI had claimed that its new…

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