Welcome to the TechBrew Ride Home for Thursday, August 7th, 2025.

I'm Brian McCullough today. All the news around the big unveiling of GPT-5.

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So the biggest product announce of the year happened this afternoon in a video on YouTube. OpenAI

unveiled the long-awaited GPT-5. Sam Altman started out by announcing 700 million people use

chat GPT every week, but now he said that interacting with GPT5 was going to be like talking

to a legitimate PhD-level expert on any topic you want,

quoting the verge. Sam Altman says GPT5 is a dramatic leap from OpenAI's previous models.

He compares it to, quote, something that I just don't want to ever have to go back from,

like the first iPhone with a retina display. OpenAI says that GPT-5 is smarter, faster, and less

likely to give inaccurate responses. GPT3 sort of felt like talking to a high school student,

Altman said during a recent press briefing I attended. You could ask it a question,

maybe you'd get a right answer, maybe you'd get something crazy.

GPT4 felt like you're talking to a college student. GPT5 is the first time

that it really feels like talking to a PhD-level expert. Despite chat GPT now reaching nearly

700 million weekly users, OpenAI hasn't had an industry leading frontier model in a while.

Now the company thinks that GPT5 will place it firmly back atop the leaderboards. This is the

best model in the world at coding, said Altman. This is the best model in the world at writing,

the best model in the world at healthcare, and a long list of things beyond that. The first thing

you'll notice about GPT5 is that it's presented inside chat GPT as just one model, not a regular model and separate reasoning model behind the scenes. GPT5 is that it's presented inside ChatGPT as just one model, not a regular model and

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