Comment by energy123

I'm happy with this release. It's half the price of Gemini 2.5 Pro ($5/1M output under flex pricing), lower hallucinations than all other frontier models, and #1 by a margin on lmarena in Code and Hard. It's nailing my tasks better than Gemini 2.5 Pro.

There's disappointment because it's branded as GPT-5 yet it's not a step change. That's fair. But let's be real, this model is just o4. OpenAI felt pressure to use the GPT-5 label eventually, and lacking a step-change breakthrough, they felt this was the best timing.

So yes, there was no hidden step-change breakthrough that we were hoping for. But does that matter much? Zoom out, and look at what's happening:

o1, o3, and now o4 (GPT-5) keep getting better. They have figured out a flywheel. Why are step changes needed here? Just keep running this flywheel for 1 year, 3 years, 10 years.

There is no dopamine rush because it's gradual, but does it make a difference?