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OpenAI keeps vaguely teasing GPT-5.

COO Brad Lightcap is speaking at Bloomberg’s Tech conference and was just asked when the next model is arriving. His answer hints that ChatGPT will evolve to act like an agent on your behalf or, at the very least, take on more of a persona.

“Will there be such a thing as a prompt engineer in 2026?” he says. “You don’t prompt engineer your friend.”

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