

OpenAI's GPT-5 Is Here. It's Very Good AI But Not AGI
161 snips Aug 8, 2025
OpenAI’s GPT-5 is now live, boasting impressive upgrades in coding, writing, and AI personalities, all while hallucinating less. Google DeepMind introduces Genie 3, hinting at the future of AI with its interactive world model. Anthropic rolls out updates to Claude Opus, while Eleven Labs ventures into music with a new model. Plus, things get spicy with xAI's Imagine AI for image and video generation. To top it off, the Unitree Hunter robot brings a thrilling, if slightly terrifying, look at robotics innovation!
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Vibes Outshine Benchmark Jumps
- People care more about how a model behaves in real use than tiny benchmark gains.
- Gavin Purcell sums it up: the vibes are off the charts.
GPT-5 Becomes The Default Model
- GPT-5 replaces prior OpenAI models and will be widely available for free.
- Sam Altman called GPT-5 a major upgrade and a step toward AGI.
Hallucinations Took A Big Hit
- OpenAI highlighted large reductions in hallucinations, especially on health benchmarks.
- Gavin Purcell pointed to big drops in hard hallucination rates on health tests.