Capital One's tech team isn't just talking about multi-agentic AI. They already deployed one.

It's called chat concierge, and it's simplifying car shopping. Using self-reflection and layered

reasoning with live API checks, it doesn't just help buyers find a car they love. It helps schedule

a test drive, get pre-approved for financing, and estimate trade and value.

Advanced, intuitive, and deployed. That's how they stack. That's technology at Capital One.

GPT5 is here. Finally, does it live up to the hype? That's coming up on a special Big Technology Podcast Friday edition right after this.

Welcome to Big Technology Podcast Friday edition where we break down the news in our traditional

cool-headed and nuanced format.

You know what we're going to be talking about today because GPT-5 has finally been released by

OpenAI.

Of course, we had OpenAI C.O. Brad Lightcap on the show just a few hours ago, so that

episode will be the most recent one in your podcast feed, where you're going to get the

official line from OpenAI and a bunch of really interesting insights about what it took

to train this model and where the AI field is going.

But today, as we always do on Friday, Ranjan Roy and I will break down exactly what the

situation is with this new model and whether this is actually something that lives up to the

hype that people have been talking about.

No overreactions.

We're going to do it with the proper context.

And with that, I want to welcome Ronchan back to the show. Rajan, welcome. Happy AGI day, Alex. Is it here? No, it's not here. Is it here? I lost the bet. I lost the bet. Look, Sam Altman said that GPT5 is smarter than almost everything, every single thing a human does. So I thought, okay, fine,

you know, we're finally going to see AGI, but turns out no, no AGI. And we will talk about that

in the middle. But first, we have a little interesting announcement. Let's hear it. Yeah, in additioning

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