🕵️ ChatGPT Rolls Out New Features and Drops Clues About GPT-5!

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Jul 28, 2025

Happy Monday, AI enthusiasts! 👋

In today’s edition we unpack OpenAI’s brand-new ChatGPT Personality Modes, fresh moves from Microsoft and Google, plus four hand-picked tools to sharpen your workflow.

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ChatGPT gets multiple personalities
Microsoft’s Copilot clues for GPT-5
Google’s “vibe-coding” experiment, Opal
and more…

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🔥 What is hot in the market?

🤖 ChatGPT Agent AI launches for Plus & Team users
OpenAI’s Agent combines web-browsing, code, and connectors in a live virtual computer and is now rolling out beyond Pro, including Europe.

🚨 Microsoft hints GPT-5 “Smart Mode” inside Copilot
Code strings reveal a quick/deep thinking toggle that appears to rely on GPT-5, signaling an August release window.

💻 Google tests Opal, a prompt-based vibe-coding app
Users build or remix mini web apps via text; Opal shows a visual workflow and one-click publishing from Google Labs.

🔥 AI referrals hit 1.13 B in June, up 357 % YoY
ChatGPT drives 80 % of traffic as publishers brace for “Google Zero” scenarios.

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🤖 Apify: A no-code/low-code platform for large-scale web scraping and automation; schedule crawlers, plug in your own JavaScript, and ship data straight to your favorite datastore.

🔎 Findable: Keep your company “findable” across ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and more with this LLM-SEO analytics suite that tracks rankings, competitors, and prompt snippets.

🎨 Hera: Your personal motion-design assistant: generate on-brand product or social videos in seconds, swap styles with a prompt, and export in any aspect ratio.

📚 AI Tutorials

🔎 Deep Dive: OpenAI Unveils ChatGPT Personality Options, Collaborative Study Tool, and Hints at Sora 2 and GPT-5 Before DevDay

OpenAI’s latest update lets you switch among distinct Persona Modes - Robot, Cynic, Listener, Sage, so ChatGPT can match your preferred tone.

It also introduces “Study Together”, a guided learning workflow, and quietly teases Sora 2 (next-gen video model) plus early GPT-5 references for DevDay 2025.

💡 Key Highlights:

Persona menu under “Customize ChatGPT”; rolling out incrementally.
Study Together offers step-by-step explanations, quizzes and exam prep.
Sora 2 aims to reclaim ground from Google’s Veo 3 in AI video.
DevDay (Oct 6) expected to preview GPT-5-reasoning-alpha.

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👋 Until Thursday…

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Until then, happy innovating!
— The AI Journal Team

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