Next top model: GPT-5 and its AI rivals
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The Economist
4.4 • 4.9K Ratings
🗓️ 12 August 2025
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
A look at progress in generative AI shows that OpenAI’s latest, greatest model sits on a neat curve of growing utility over time. But what other firms are on that curve, and where is it taking humanity? After a long, wary time, Japanese savers are getting into investing—with gusto. And what goofy, small-time wrestling leagues reveal about today’s America.
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| 1:05.0 | For a long while in Japan, after the bursting of the asset price bubble in the 1990s and a long era of deflation, |
| 1:12.6 | investment just didn't look smart. |
| 1:14.6 | With inflation now on the way up, all that is changing. |
| 1:18.6 | Across the board, Japanese people have investing fever. |
| 1:22.6 | And here are some words that until recently didn't really go together in America, |
| 1:28.2 | indie wrestling league. |
| 1:30.3 | The big purveyors of the country's fakesest sport are on the ropes, |
| 1:34.4 | and lots of smaller, frankly, bonkers outfits are drawing dedicated crowds. |
| 1:42.2 | But first... For nearly seven decades of work by artificial intelligence researchers, not a whole lot happened. |
| 1:57.0 | There was even an AI winter when many thought the field was just dead. Boy, did that |
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