GPT-5: Everything You Need to Know
The AI Daily Brief: Artificial Intelligence News and Analysis
Nathaniel Whittemore
4.7 • 769 Ratings
🗓️ 7 August 2025
⏱️ 32 minutes
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NLW covers the big announcement from OpenAI, and explores why the big use case that they're clearly driving at is coding. Sharing the first impressions from early testers, we cover the good and bad of the AI model that will become the default for 700 million people.
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| 0:00.0 | After literally years now of waiting, GPT5 is here. |
| 0:05.6 | Is it a GI? |
| 0:06.9 | Is it a disappointment? |
| 0:08.4 | We are going to get into all of that on this special episode of the AI Daily Brief. |
| 0:13.2 | The AI Daily Brief is a daily podcast and video about the most important news and discussions in AI. |
| 0:24.4 | All right, friends, back with a very big episode of the AI Daily Brief here. |
| 0:28.5 | Before we get into that, quick announcements, as always. |
| 0:30.8 | First, thank you to the sponsors of today's show, KPMG, Blitzy, and Super Intelligent. |
| 0:35.5 | To get an ad-free version of the show, go to patreon.com |
| 0:38.6 | slash AI Daily Brief. And if you are interested in sponsoring the show, you can reach out to |
| 0:43.0 | sponsors at AIDailybrief.aI. But with that, let's dive right into the meat of this, because it was a big |
| 0:50.1 | day. It is not hyperbole to say that this has been years in the making. ChatGPT4 was the dominant |
| 0:56.6 | model for so long. I mean, almost throughout basically all of 2023, it was the undisputed champion. |
| 1:03.6 | And throughout most of the first three quarters of 2024, it was really just everyone |
| 1:07.6 | catching up and putting out their GPT4 class model. Now, things started |
| 1:12.0 | to change a little bit, of course, in the fall of 24 when we got 01 in the advent of reasoning |
| 1:16.5 | models. This year, we've seen continued progress on reasoning models. For many tasks, |
| 1:21.3 | OpenAI's O3 model is the main model they use, but then we've also got the insurgency of Chinese |
| 1:26.5 | open models, Deepseeks R1, |
| 1:28.5 | for example. And in the realm of coding, which is very germane to our story today, we've had |
| 1:34.2 | the incredible dominance of Anthropic. Ever since Claude 3.5 Sonnet through 3.7 Sonnet, Opus |
| 1:40.9 | 4 and now Opus 4.1, Anthropic has had the go-to coding model for a huge number of people. |
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