No, it wasn’t. Have you read and listened to Altman’s hype around GPT-5 from a year ago? They changed the narration after the 4.1 flop, which they thought would be GPT-5, and it seems some people fell for it.
> Capabilities ~90-110% of their top tier old models at 4-6x lower price
Maybe they finally implemented the DeepSeek paper.
OpenAI's CEO says he's scared of GPT-5
https://www.techradar.com/ai-platforms-assistants/chatgpt/op...
Sam Altman Compares OpenAI To The Manhattan Project—And He's Not Joking About the Risks
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/sam-altman-compares-openai-ma...
This is Altman after the release:
Sam Altman says ‘yes,’ AI is in a bubble
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/759965/s...
I replied below in this thread with the specific post, 6 months ago.
> After that, a top goal for us is to unify o-series models and GPT-series models by creating systems that can use all our tools, know when to think for a long time or not, and generally be useful for a very wide range of tasks.
> In both ChatGPT and our API, we will release GPT-5 as a system that integrates a lot of our technology, including o3. We will no longer ship o3 as a standalone model.
Obviously it's not.
This is hard to quantify exactly since very few benchmarks have the kind of scales where comparing two deltas would be meaningful. But if we pick the Artifical Analysis composite score[0] as the baseline, GPT-3.5 Turbo was at 11, GPT-4 at 25, and GPT-5 at 69. It's just that most of the post-GPT-4 improvement was with o1 and o3.
Feels like a pretty fair statement.
[0] https://artificialanalysis.ai/#frontier-language-model-intel...