{"id":19693,"date":"2025-08-09T16:37:16","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T14:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/09\/openai-will-not-disclose-gpt-5s-energy-use-it-could-be-higher-than-past-models\/"},"modified":"2025-08-09T16:37:16","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T14:37:16","slug":"openai-will-not-disclose-gpt-5s-energy-use-it-could-be-higher-than-past-models","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/09\/openai-will-not-disclose-gpt-5s-energy-use-it-could-be-higher-than-past-models\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI will not disclose GPT-5\u2019s energy use. It could be higher than past models"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Experts working to benchmark resource use of AI models say new version\u2019s enhanced capabilities come at a steep cost<\/p>\n<p>In mid-2023, if a user asked OpenAI\u2019s ChatGPT for a recipe for artichoke <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outsideonline.com\/food\/food-culture\/i-spent-a-day-following-ai-recipes-and-it-was-both-delicious-and-freaky\/\">pasta<\/a> or instructions on how to make a ritual <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/technology\/archive\/2025\/07\/chatgpt-ai-self-mutilation-satanism\/683649\/\">offering<\/a> to the ancient Canaanite deity Moloch, its response might have taken \u2013 very roughly \u2013 2 watt-<a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/pdf\/2304.03271\">hours<\/a>, or about as much electricity as an incandescent bulb consumes in 2 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>OpenAI <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/aug\/07\/openai-chatgpt-upgrade-big-step-forward-human-jobs-gpt-5\">released<\/a> a model on Thursday that will underpin the popular chatbot \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/aug\/07\/openai-chatgpt-upgrade-big-step-forward-human-jobs-gpt-5\">GPT-5<\/a>. Ask that version of the AI for an artichoke recipe, and the same amount of pasta-related text could take several times \u2013 even 20 times \u2013 that amount of energy, experts say.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/aug\/09\/open-ai-chat-gpt5-energy-use\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/52e21e9254d1b2d4abeb4045224f576af40d90d0\/1438_0_7202_5760\/master\/7202.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=232f5d38653f0b3fd5f8d00e004bf1ad\" title=\"OpenAI will not disclose GPT-5\u2019s energy use. It could be higher than past models\" \/>Experts working to benchmark resource use of AI models say new version\u2019s enhanced capabilities come at a steep cost<br \/>\nIn mid-2023, if a user asked OpenAI\u2019s ChatGPT for a recipe for artichoke pasta or instructions on how to make a ritual offering to the ancient Canaanite deity Moloch, its response might have taken \u2013 very roughly \u2013 2 watt-hours, or about as much electricity as an incandescent bulb consumes in 2 minutes.<br \/>\nOpenAI released a model on Thursday that will underpin the popular chatbot \u2013 GPT-5. Ask that version of the AI for an artichoke recipe, and the same amount of pasta-related text could take several times \u2013 even 20 times \u2013 that amount of energy, experts say. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Experts working to benchmark resource use of AI models say new version\u2019s enhanced capabilities come at a steep cost In mid-2023, if a user asked OpenAI\u2019s ChatGPT for a recipe for artichoke pasta or instructions on how to make a ritual offering to the ancient Canaanite deity Moloch, its response might have taken \u2013 very &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/09\/openai-will-not-disclose-gpt-5s-energy-use-it-could-be-higher-than-past-models\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">OpenAI will not disclose GPT-5\u2019s energy use. It could be higher than past models<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":19694,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19693"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19693\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}