AI Revolution: GPT-5 Launches, Billion-Dollar Startups, and Global AI Showdowns (Aug 8–9, 2025)
OpenAI released GPT-5 on Aug 8, 2025, the first major upgrade to ChatGPT in over two years, with 700 million weekly users and reinforced safety guardrails. Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.1 on Aug 5, 2025, improving software engineering accuracy to 74.5% on its coding