On 7 August 2025, OpenAI released its long-awaited GPT-5. It was made available to all users of ChatGPT, free and paid, and was described by OpenAI as its "best AI system yet."
In this post I cover three initial thoughts on GPT-5:
Maybe AGI cannot be achieved through scaling after all
Maybe instead of AGI we get diffusion
Maybe this is the start of the AI b…