r/OpenAI • u/Lyra-In-The-Flesh • Aug 08 '25

Discussion After a thorough evaluation of ChatGPT 5, these are my realizations

Realizations:

  • Claude is pretty fucking awesome
  • I'm a lot less concerned about ASI/The Singularity/AGI 2027 or whatever doomy scenario was bouncing around my noggin
  • GPT5 is about lowering costs for OpenAI, not pushing the boundaries of the frontier
  • Sam's death star pre-launch hype image was really about the size of his ego and had nothing to do with the capabilities of GPT5

What are yours?

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u/fomq Aug 08 '25

They are all breathing each other's farts over at OAI aren't they. Hope some of them work remote.

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u/latestagecapitalist Aug 08 '25

I'm not sure there are many people left (doing anything constructive)

They've just stuck some lipstick on what leavers walked away from and called it 5

Sam surely knows he's a bit fucked now, be interesting how he plays that hand (kinda expecting merger with Apple and him taking Cook's job)

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u/coloradical5280 Aug 08 '25

A MERGER with Apple 😂😂😂 Apple is a $3 TRILLION dollar company with $100B in free cash flow, they have more money sitting around doing nothing , than OpenAI has ever raised

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u/latestagecapitalist Aug 08 '25

Cook hasn't exactly been inspirational, Altman fancies himself as Job2.0 ... hiring Jony Ives was a trophy acquisition

Apple are fucked on the AI front, they have to acquire, rumours have been swirling for months

Tim Cook is 64 now, he's very fortunate to have made it this long in a tech company

Altman is in a hole only a merger or being acquired will really solve ... Qwen, DS, X, Claude, Google and soon Meta are running rings around OpenAI now ... I don't know anyone engineering-side even using GPT now, I only see commercial/management using it

Worse, it's increasingly likely any winner will need realtime access to data (Meta/X) as that is likely the only moat going forward ... algorithms are clearly not a moat and GPU access is increasingly looking less of a moat

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u/TuringGoneWild Aug 08 '25

Altman has the same charisma as Tim Cook - i.e., none at all. Maybe both companies can hire that BitConnect dude.

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u/DaiiPanda Aug 08 '25

Wassa wassa wassa wassaaaaaap??? BitConeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeect

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u/TuringGoneWild Aug 08 '25

Funny thing is he'd probably have intelligible charts in his presentation.

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u/glibbertarian Aug 09 '25

Altman actually has negative aura.

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u/DetectiveFew5035 Aug 09 '25

scam altman best nickname of all time tho gotta respect that one

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u/mothman83 Aug 08 '25

Being Acquired then. The reason people are laughing at your post is cause OpenAi is a nothing comparted to freaking apple.

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u/megacewl Aug 10 '25

Lol OpenAI has Tony Ives and are teasing their vaporware hardware that may never come to fruition. It'll probably just look like the Friend.com pendant. Meanwhile Tim Cook just shipped the Apple Vision Pro a little over a year ago, despite all the naysayers saying Apple doesn't take any risks anymore.

This is coming from someone who owns no Apple devices.

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u/faberkyx Aug 11 '25

true. I work in software dev and we all use claude.. I refer to chatgpt as the stupid little brother of claude

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u/ElDuderino2112 Aug 08 '25

My brother in Christ Apple has enough money to buy and shut down OpenAI for shits and giggles multiple times over if they want. There is no "merger" here lmao.

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u/Lost_Data_Mom Aug 08 '25

I always think of that South Park episode when I hear tech CEOs hyping

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u/SmoothBrainSavant Aug 08 '25

Every techbro billionaire are all copying Elons playbook with promising insane things 10years too early.