OpenAI launched GPT-5 on August 7, 2025, touting "PhD-level intelligence" with built-in advanced reasoning for coding, planning, and agentic tasks. Available to Free, Plus, Pro, and Team users immediately, with Enterprise/Edu following. The rollout faced backlash over glitches, hallucinations, and a "colder" tone, prompting OpenAI to restore legacy models for paid users.

Tweets reflected mixed sentiments, praising coding strengths but criticizing the chaotic debut and emotional impacts, and many missed gpt-4o.

Google launched Gemini 2.5 Deep Think, an advanced reasoning mode in Gemini 2.5 Pro, available to Google AI Ultra subscribers via the Gemini app. It uses parallel thinking and reinforcement learning for better problem-solving, generating and refining hypotheses over time. Strengths include creative projects, science, math, and coding. Activate via "Deep Think" in the prompt bar; limited daily prompts. Integrates tools like code execution and search for detailed, safe responses.

AI companies loves fruit, so now is Google's time with "Nano Banana" the codename for Gemini 2.5 Flash Image, a major upgrade to its Gemini AI suite.

Why is a game changer?

• Consistency Over Everything: Nano Banana shines by ensuring visual elements—faces, pets, objects—remain consistent across multiple edits. It addresses the common "close but no cigar" problem in AI editing .
• Editing, Not Just Generating: Unlike many AI tools, it doesn't just spawn new images—it excels at nuanced, multi-step edits. Think combining images, modifying existing ones, or transforming backgrounds—all while keeping things coherent .
• Deep Integration Across Platforms: It's now integrated into both web and mobile versions of the Gemini app, available to free and paid users alike. So yes, everyone gets in on the action.

Nano-Banana already launched and we had the privilege to try it and I can tell you, it deliver what it promises for the image editing, but it's still hallucinate when the image has way too many details.