President Donald Trump signed an executive order Wednesday to steer federal contracts toward companies whose AI models are deemed free of ideological bias. The order, issued as part of the administration’s rollout of a wide-ranging “AI Action Plan,

GPT-5 — in August, Axios has learned. Why it matters: The race to create the biggest and best AI models is accelerating as the Trump administration has said the U.S. must do "whatever it takes" to beat China.

Artificial intelligence pioneer OpenAI plans to launch its GPT-5 model as early as August, The Verge reported on Thursday, citing sources familiar with the plans.

"I put it in the model, this is GPT-5, and it answered it perfectly," Altman said, saying it gave him a "weird feeling" to see the AI model answer a question that he couldn't. GPT-5 has been a highly anticipated release since the launch of GPT-4 in March 2023.