🍭 GPT-5: Chart Crimes and Price Wars 🤺

Good morning. The intern didn’t leave the office all weekend. “Testing GPT-5”.

Now our API calls have maxxed out the company credit cards.

We’re fine. It’s fine…

Let’s dig in.

🍭 What’s Cookin’:

• OpenAI’s chart crime and price war

• Steal This Prompt™: ASCII Art Style

• ToolBox™

• And Everything Else

OpenAI
📊 GPT‑5’s Bumpy and the "Chart Crime”

The Bite: OpenAI’s Reddit AMA for GPT‑5 revealed the hiccup:

A busted real‑time router made the model feel dumber on day one.

Altman says fixes are live, model IDs will be visible, and Plus users may get 4o back.

He owned the demo’s “mega chart screwup” and promised stability + doubled Plus rate limits.

Snacks:

• Router. Autoswitcher failed during rollout; wrong model sometimes answered.

• Know Who Answered. OpenAI will show which model handled each reply.

• 4o Option. Considering letting Plus users keep access to 4o.

• More Quota. Doubling Plus rate limits as rollout completes.

Why it Bites™: If the router misfires, trust tanks.

Not only with AI twitter but like… actual trust.

Despite all of this; was the model better than 4o and o3 on day 1?

I mean; we felt the difference almost instantly.

Let’s see how the next few weeks play out as the model keeps getting refined and handles edge cases better.

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2. Paste into Midjourney

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OpenAI Price War?
🏷️ GPT Reverse Sticker Shock

The Bite: OpenAI priced GPT‑5 to move: $1.25/M input and $10/M output).

M = 1 million tokens. Here’s a bit about what tokens in AI means.

It matches Gemini 2.5 Pro’s base tier and undercuts Claude Opus 4.1 by a lot.

Dev tools flipped it on fast; the question is whether anyone can sustain this while infra spend explodes.

Snacks:

• The Numbers. $1.25/M in, $10/M out.

• Google Parity. Mirrors Gemini 2.5 Pro base; heavy users may pay more on Google.

• Anthropic Gap. Claude Opus 4.1 lists $15/$75. Big undercut by GPT-5.

• Fast Adoption. Cursor added GPT‑5 quickly; early reviews call the pricing “aggressively competitive.”

Why it Bites™: Cheaper tokens shift advantage to orchestration, caching, and UX.

Short‑term: builders win.
Long‑term: AI might stay unprofitable for a long time.

If you are a builder or curious about building an AI first app; NOW IS THE TIME!

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Everything Else
🧠 You Need to Know

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→ The move would help power X’s struggling ads business following the departure of former CEO Linda Yaccarino.

🌐 Airbnb CEO: ‘AI agents aren’t the ‘new Google’
→ Cautions investors that AI chatbots can’t yet be thought of as the “new Google.”

🫂 Truth Social + Perplexity = ??
→ Perplexity is powering a new AI-powered search engine on Truth Social, President Donald Trump’s social media platform.

🧜‍♀️ Vogue’s AI-generated ads face industry-wide backlash
→ Digital models instead of real people, reigniting questions about authenticity and creative labor.

👎 Trump says Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan must ‘resign immediately’
→ “The CEO of INTEL is highly CONFLICTED and must resign, immediately. There is no other solution to this problem.” - Trump

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