GPT-5 Hot Take

24 almost-exactly 4 8/7/2025, 7:42:35 PM garymarcus.substack.com ↗

Comments (4)

LeftHandPath · 1h ago
> Pricing is good, but profits may continue to be elusive; still no clear technical moat.

It's quite ironic that the technology that is displacing so many people from so many industries, has yet to make a profit. I fear the "creative" part of their destruction will take longer to achieve than they advertise.

darth_avocado · 1h ago
What is worse? Terrible charts, terrible charts making it through any form of scrutiny or terrible charts intentionally making it to the main stage.
abeppu · 1h ago
> OpenAI conveniently forgot to include this comparison (ARC-AGI-2) in their livestream recital of benchmark progress, which left the livestream looking like marketing rather than science.

Yeah but it was _supposed_ to be marketing, right? Like, of course a product video isn't science in the same way a "hot take" post also isn't science.

dude250711 · 52m ago
Why is Grok so surprisingly decent? Does lack of mainstream liberal-left censorship (replaced with Musky censorship) result in some sort of a weird performance boost?