{"id":288012,"date":"2025-11-12T23:35:05","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T23:35:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/288012\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T23:35:05","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T23:35:05","slug":"openai-says-the-brand-new-gpt-5-1-is-warmer-and-has-more-personality-options","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/288012\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI says the brand-new GPT-5.1 is \u2018warmer\u2019 and has more \u2018personality\u2019 options"},"content":{"rendered":"

OpenAI is releasing GPT-5.1 today, an update to the flagship model it released in August<\/a>. OpenAI calls it an \u201cupgrade\u201d to GPT-5 that \u201cmakes ChatGPT smarter and more enjoyable to talk to.\u201d<\/p>\n

The new models include GPT-5.1 Instant and GPT-5.1 Thinking. The former is \u201cwarmer, more intelligent, and better at following your instructions\u201d than its predecessor, per an OpenAI release, and the latter is \u201cnow easier to understand and faster on simple tasks, and more persistent on complex ones.\u201d Queries will, in most cases, be auto-matched to the models that may best be able to answer them. The two new models will start rolling out to ChatGPT users this week, and the old GPT-5 models will be available for three months in ChatGPT\u2019s legacy models dropdown menu before they disappear.<\/p>\n

As part of the update, OpenAI also said it would expand its personality presets for the conversational tone of the models. The total list of options now includes Default, Professional, Friendly, Candid, Quirky, Efficient, Nerdy, and Cynical, per the company\u2019s blog post<\/a>. OpenAI also said in a release that it would also debut an \u201cexperiment for new ways to fine-tune ChatGPT\u2019s style directly from settings,\u201d which some users will begin to be able to access this week.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith more than 800 million people using ChatGPT, we\u2019re well past the point of one-size-fits-all,\u201d Fidji Simo, the company\u2019s CEO of Applications, wrote in a Wednesday Substack post<\/a>.<\/p>\n

While OpenAI CEO Sam Altman hyped up the announce of GPT-5 in August, the release failed the hype test<\/a>. Many ChatGPT users were left unimpressed, particularly at the incremental improvements, and expressed frustration over OpenAI\u2019s choice to make it the default model for ChatGPT. There was so much pressure that OpenAI decided it would bring back GPT-4o<\/a> as an option, a day after the launch of GPT-5.<\/p>\n

Microsoft, OpenAI\u2019s strategic AI partner, has also increasingly been looking at rival models from Anthropic<\/a> after GPT-5 failed to raise the bar enough. Anthropic\u2019s models are now helping power Copilot Researcher, GitHub Copilot<\/a>, Copilot Studio, and a new Office Agent<\/a> that is able to produce Word and PowerPoint documents from Microsoft\u2019s own Copilot chat interface.<\/p>\n

The announcement of GPT-5.1 comes just weeks after OpenAI launched its AI-powered web browser, ChatGPT Atlas<\/a>. It has an \u201cagent mode\u201d that\u2019s currently only available to ChatGPT Plus and Pro users, and it works much like the company\u2019s Operator tool to take actions in the browser on behalf of users.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OpenAI is releasing GPT-5.1 today, an update to the flagship model it released in August. OpenAI calls it…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":288013,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[182,181,507,3,1283,74],"class_list":{"0":"post-288012","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-openai","13":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288012\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/288013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}