Updating GPT-5
We’re updatingGPT-5 Instantto better recognize and support people in moments of distress.
The model is trained to more accurately detect and respond to potential signs of mental and emotional distress. These updates were guided by mental health experts, and help ChatGPT de-escalate conversations and point people to real-world crisis resources when appropriate, while still using language that feels supportive and grounding.
As we shared in arecent blog, we've been using our real-time router to direct sensitive parts of conversations—such as those showing signs of acute distress—to reasoning models. GPT-5 Instant now performs just as well as GPT-5 Thinking on these types of questions. When GPT-5 Auto or a non-reasoning model is selected, we'll instead route these conversations to GPT-5 Instant to more quickly provide helpful and beneficial responses. ChatGPT will continue to tell users which model is active when asked.
This update to GPT-5 Instant is starting to roll out to ChatGPT users today.We’re continuing to work on improvements and will keep updating the model to make it smarter and safer over time.