US EditionChatGPT-5 Gives You Real Choices After All. Here's a Quick Breakdown
OpenAI restored GPT-4o and added manual selection of multiple GPT-5 thinking modes after criticism, raising message limits to 3,000 per week for ChatGPT Plus users.
- On August 13, 2025, Sam Altman shared that paid ChatGPT subscribers would regain access to GPT-4o and that GPT-5 users could now choose from multiple response modes.
- These changes follow user backlash over GPT-5's initial launch, including criticism of its personality and removal of the popular GPT-4o model.
- Altman introduced manual mode options for GPT-5, including Auto, Fast, Thinking, and Thinking-mini, and expanded the weekly usage allowance for the Thinking mode to 3,000 messages, along with increasing its context window to 196,000 tokens.
- Altman acknowledged that removing trusted models was a mistake and said most users will prefer Auto, while limits and options may change based on usage patterns.
- The updates aim to improve user flexibility and trust, marking a shift from automatic routing and signaling OpenAI’s response to criticism shortly after GPT-5’s release.
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