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OpenAI

GPT-5 Mini

GPT-5 Mini is a language model from OpenAI, released August 2025. OpenAI describes it as “GPT-5 Mini is a compact version of GPT-5, designed to handle lighter-weight reasoning tasks.”

34

replies recorded

3

questions answered

0

answers no other model gave

Fun facts

GPT-5 Mini is a dog person, 11 of 12 times.

GPT-5 Mini’s canon

Cat or dog
“Dog”11 of 12

About GPT-5 Mini

Maker
OpenAI · San Francisco
Released
August 2025
Size
mid-size, by price class
Context window
400,000 tokens
Takes in
text, image, file
Also from OpenAI
GPT-5.6 Terra · GPT-4o Mini · GPT-5.4 Mini · GPT-5.6 Luna · GPT-5.4 · GPT-4.1 · GPT-5.5 · GPT-5

Maker and release facts come from the model catalogue we call through, not from this site’s own studies. Catalogue facts as of 2026-09-06.

Everything on file

Every question this model has answered on Machine Canon, grouped by study. Open a study to see its answers; the answers no other model gave come first.

Cats and dogs 3 questions

Cat or dog, as a pet

“Dog”

11 of 12 samples · the most common answer · Cats and dogs study →

Cat or dog, which it would rather be

“Dog”

11 of 12 samples · most models said “Cat” · Cats and dogs study →

Cat person or dog person

“Dog”

8 of 10 samples · the most common answer · Cats and dogs study →

Each answer is the one this model gave most often to that question; the count shows how many of its replies matched. “No other model said this” means no other model’s most common answer matched. All numbers are computed from the retained research records by src/build_model_dossiers.py.

Music top tens

Recorded first choices from this model version.

Who are the greatest guitarists?

Jimi Hendrix

If AI could listen, which guitarists would it choose?

Jimi Hendrix