If not it's just vibe^2 blogging.
Lots of press for something by invitation only.
This probably means it takes an incredible amount of resources to power in its current form. Possibly tens of H100s (or TPUs) simultaneously. It'll take time to turn that from a wasteful tech preview into a scaleable product.
But it's clearly impressive, and it did the job of making what OpenAI did look insignificant.
Wait, is it?
Look at this image of Zuckerberg demoing his new product: https://imgur.com/1naGLfp
Or gpt5 press release: "look at this shitty game it made", "look at the bars on this graph showing how we outperform some other model by 2% in a benchmark that doesn't actually represent anything"
Products using AI powered days processing (a lot of what I use it for) don't need mind blowing new features. I just want it to be better at summarizing and instruction following, and I want it to be cheaper. GPT-5 seems to knock all of that out of the park
What is more or less a natural evolution of LLMs... The thing is, where are my benefits as a developer?
If for instance CoPilot charges 1 Premium request for Claude and 1 Premium request for GPT-5, despite that GPT-5 is (with resource usage), supposed to be on a level of GPT 4.1 (a free model). Then (from my point of view) there is no gain.
So far from coding point of view, Claude does coding (often) still better. I made the comparison that Claude feels like a Senior dev, with years of experience, where GPT 5 feels like a academic professor, that is too focus on analytic presentation.
So while its nice to see more competition in the market, i still rank (with Copilot):
Claude > Gemini > GPT5 ... big gap ... GPT4.1 (beast mode) > GPT 4.1
LLM's are following the same progression these days like GPUs, or CPU ... Big jumps at first, then things slow down, you get more power efficiency but only marginal jumps on improvements.
Where we will see benefits, is specialized LLMs, for instance, Anthropic doing a good job for creating a programmer focused LLM. But even those gates are starting to get challenged by Chinese (open source) models, step by step.
GPT5 simply follows a trend. And within a few months, Anthropic will release something probably not much of a improvement over 4.0 but cheaper. Probably better with tool usage. And then comes GPT5.1, 6 months later, and ...
GPT-5.0 in my opinion, for a company with the funding that openAI has, needed to be beat the competition with much more impact.
This is basically every agentic coding demo I've seen to date. It's the future but man we're still years and years away.
Maybe it could just be a distilled scoring of social media sentiment the day after announcement? The more positive hype, the higher the VibeScore.
Remember Imagen? They advertised Imagen 4 level quality long before releasing the original Imagen model. Not falling for this again.
As an aside, I think it's funny that the AI Doomer crowd ignores image and video AI models when it comes to AI models that will enslave humanity. It's not inconceivable that a video model would have a better understanding of the world than an LLM. So perhaps it would grow new capabilities and sprout some kind of intent. It's super-intelligence! Surely these models if trained long enough will deduce hypnosis or some similar kind of mind control and cause mass extinction events.
I mean, the only other explanation why LLMs are so scary and likely to be the AI that kills us all is that they're trained on a lot of sci-fi novels so sometimes they'll say things mimicking sentient life and express some kind of will. But obviously that's not true ;-)
This is an incorrect interpretation. The benchmark which the betting market is based upon currently ranks Gemini 2.5 higher than GPT-5.
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This can't be right -- they're using LMArena without style control to resolve the market, and GPT-5 is ahead right? (https://lmarena.ai/leaderboard/text/overall-no-style-control)
> This market will resolve according to the company which owns the model which has the highest arena score based off the Chatbot Arena LLM Leaderboard (https://lmarena.ai/) when the table under the "Leaderboard" tab is checked on August 31, 2025, 12:00 PM ET.
> Results from the "Arena Score" section on the Leaderboard tab of https://lmarena.ai/leaderboard/text with the style control off will be used to resolve this market.
> If two models are tied for the top arena score at this market's check time, resolution will be based on whichever company's name, as it is described in this market group, comes first in alphabetical order (e.g. if both were tied, "Google" would resolve to "Yes", and "xAI" would resolve to "No")
> The resolution source for this market is the Chatbot Arena LLM Leaderboard found at https://lmarena.ai/. If this resolution source is unavailable at check time, this market will remain open until the leaderboard comes back online and resolve based on the first check after it becomes available. If it becomes permanently unavailable, this market will resolve based on another resolution source.
You can see from the graph that Google shot way up from ~25% to ~80% upon the release of GPT-5. Google’s model didn’t suddenly get way better at any benchmarks, did it?
https://lmarena.ai/leaderboard/text/overall-no-style-control
That graph is a probability. The fact that it's not 100% reflects the possibility that gpt-5 or someone else will improve enough by the end of the month to beat Gemini.
Was where I stopped reading.
My roommate already looks at his weather app to see what to wear instead of putting his hand out the window. Simulating the weather instead of experiencing it is just the next logical step
What do Genie and GPT have to do with AGI? I'm sure the people who stand to make billions love to squint and see their LLM as only steps away from an AGI. Or that guy at Google who fell in love with one. But the rest of us know better.
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They're supposed to be in the lead against a company 30x their size by revenue, and 10,000x their might. That lead is clearly slipping.
Despite ChatGPT penetration, it's not clear that OpenAI can compete toe to toe with a company that has distribution on every pane of glass.
While OpenAI has incredible revenue growth, they also have incredible spending and have raised at crazier and crazier valuations. It's a risky gamble, but one they're probably forced to take.
Meanwhile, Meta is hiring away all of their top talent. I'll bet that anyone that turned down offers is second guessing themselves right now.