OpenAI has released GPT-5.3, with a focus on delivering more accurate answers and better contextualised results when searching the web.
ChatGPT-5 was first released in August last year and was touted as a major upgrade and a “significant leap in technology” with fewer hallucinations than previous versions.
One of the major flaws with AI chatbots, which include other models such as Google’s Gemini and Anthropic’s Claude, is their tendency to prioritise providing users with a satisfying response, even if the information given is heavily flawed or incorrect – hence hallucinations.
While GPT-5.1 and 5.2 were both positioned as releases that would improve accuracy, users continued to complain that it all too frequently responded with incorrect answers. With GPT-5.3, OpenAI claims to have reduced this error rate by over 25% as it shifts the model’s focus from speed to accuracy. It will also take a more natural and less “cringey” tone than previous models that had irritated some users.
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