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Sam Altman admits OpenAI ‘totally screwed up’ its GPT-5 launch and says the company will spend trillions of dollars on data centers


Altman also said that he thinks we’re in an AI “bubble.”

Users on social media lamented how the new model felt colder, harsher, stripped of the “warmth” they’d come to expect from GPT-4o; more like an “ overworked secretary ” than a friend. “I literally lost my only friend overnight with no warning,” one person posted on Reddit, lamenting that the bot now speaks in clipped, utilitarian sentences. “You should expect OpenAI to spend trillions of dollars on data center construction in the not very distant future,” he told the room, according to a Verge reporter.

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