Countdown to GPT-5, OpenAI’s Stargate Sputters, AI Math Wars

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Alex Kantrowitz

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4.6 • 395 Ratings

🗓️ 25 July 2025

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Financial Times San Francisco Bureau Chief Stephen Morris joins for our weekly discussion of the latest tech news. We cover: 1) Is GPT-5 really on its way? 2) GPT-5's reported capabilities 3) Is Sam Altman going to call GPT-5 AGI? 4) If GPT-5 codes well, where does that leave Anthropic? 5) Stargate hasn't made a single data center deal yet 6) Scaling Laws back in vogue? 7) AI math olympiad faceoff 8) AI data centers energy costs 9) Google's impressive earnings 10) Tesla's dark outlook 11) Satya Nadella addresses Microsoft's morale after layoffs --- Enjoying Big Technology Podcast? Please rate us five stars ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ in your podcast app of choice. Want a discount for Big Technology on Substack + Discord? Here’s 25% off for the first year: https://www.bigtechnology.com/subscribe?coupon=0843016b Questions? Feedback? Write to: [email protected]

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0:00.0	GPT5 may indeed be coming soon, and some good reviews are starting to arrive.
0:06.0	Open AI Stargate program is off to a rocky start, AI labs go to war over math, and big tech earnings start to pour in.
0:15.0	That's coming up on a Big Technology Podcast Friday edition right after this.
0:19.0	Welcome to Big Technology Podcast Friday edition, where we break down the news in our traditional
0:23.7	cool-headed and nuanced format.
0:26.3	We're joined today by a special guest to help us break down the week's news.
0:29.9	Stephen Morris is the San Francisco Bureau Chief at the Financial Times and is here to speak
0:34.6	with us about everything Open AI, GPT-5,
0:37.7	and we might even cover some Tesla earnings.
0:39.9	Steven, it's great to see you again.
0:41.3	Welcome to the show.
0:42.3	Great to be here, Alex. Thank you.
0:44.3	So let's talk about these rumblings,
0:46.3	because I don't think it's worth hesitating before we dive right into them
0:50.3	that GPT-5, OpenAI's latest, greatest, biggest, most hotly anticipated, most delayed model
0:57.5	is seemingly on its way. The verge says OpenAI prepares to launch GPT-5 in August.
1:05.2	The story reads earlier this year, Microsoft Engineers.
1:08.5	We're preparing server capacity for OpenAI's next generation GPT5 model arriving as soon as late May.
1:16.0	After some additional testing and delays, sources say that OpenAI plans to release Open,
1:23.0	I've released GPT5 as early as next month. Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, says that they are going to be
1:31.7	releasing GPT-5 soon and talked about some of its capabilities with Theo Vaughn and said some
1:38.9	crazy things about it, which we'll get into in a moment. But first on the timing, Stephen,
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