2025
According to David Martin, GPT-5 was released the day before the interview, bringing new capabilities.
“You see, GPT-5 come out yesterday, you know, which brings a host of new capabilities.”
Topic
GPT-5
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2025
OpenAI released GPT-5, which Daniel Whitenack says was received poorly by the wider public.
“OpenAI released GPT five, uh, which, um, we haven't talked about a a ton on the show yet, but you know, they released GPT five.”
2025
Chris Benson says some users preferred the earlier GPT-4o model to GPT-5 and had personified it.
“People were preferring the four o uh model, you know, there was quite quite a bit of um personification of that model”
2025
Olivier Godement says Amgen has been a top customer of GPT-5.
“Amgen has been, like, a top customer of GPT-5, for instance.”
2025
Sherwin Wu says GPT-5 Pro can solve hard problems in one try but may take around ten minutes to respond.
“you throw it to GPT five Pro, and, uh, it just, like, one-shots it, is is pretty crazy. But the trade-off here is you're you're you're waiting for ten minutes.”
2025
Some customers found GPT-5 too terse because they reused old prompts begging for brevity, and removing them fixed it, according to Sherwin Wu.
“And so just by removing the extra prompts, uh, around being concise, the model behaved in a much better way”
2025
Reganti says GPT-4o is being deprecated in OpenAI's APIs, so companies must move to GPT-5, whose different behavior can throw off a system's calibration.
“GPT 40 doesn't exist anymore, or it's going to be deprecated in APIs as well. So most companies that were using 40 should switch to 5, and 5 has very different properties.”
Undated
Sam Altman says OpenAI practises iterative deployment, publicising each GPT version instead of building GPT-5 in secret.
“rather than go build in secret until we got all the way to GPT five, we decided to talk about GPT one, two, three and four.”
Undated
Schulhoff says the number of possible attack prompts against a model like GPT-5 is one followed by a million zeros, which he calls effectively infinite.
“And for a model like GPT five, the number of possible attacks is one followed by a million zeros.”
Episodes
- 18 Mar 2024#419 – Sam Altman: OpenAI, GPT-5, Sora, Board Saga, Elon Musk, Ilya, Power & AGI2h 2m
- 15 Aug 2025Jobs at Risk from AI Right Now - Future of Work! | CXOTalk #88955m
- 11 Sep 2025Inside OpenAI Enterprise: Forward Deployed Engineering, GPT-5, and More | BG2 Guest Interview1h 8m
- 11 Jan 2026Why most AI products fail: Lessons from 50+ AI deployments at OpenAI, Google, and Amazon1h 26m
- 21 Dec 2025The coming AI security crisis (and what to do about it) | Sander Schulhoff1h 32m
- 11 Sep 2025Cracking the code of failed AI pilots46m