ChatGPT’s model picker is back, and it’s complicated

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Aug 13, 2025 03:25
Maxwell Zeff
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Summary

OpenAI has reintroduced the model picker in ChatGPT, despite initial plans for GPT-5 to streamline model selection. This move highlights ongoing complexity in AI model choices, suggesting that a unified, all-purpose model remains challenging to achieve in current AI development.

GPT-5 was supposed to get rid of all the complicated AI models to choose from in ChatGPT, but that's not how it's panned out.