Sam Altman Reveals GPT-5: The $100B Lifesaver Set to Ignite Enterprise AI
Move over, human doctors—GPT-5’s coming for your job. Sam Altman just dropped the mic on AI’s next evolution, and Wall Street’s already salivating.
The $100B gold rush
Enterprise AI wasn’t just hot—it was nuclear. Then GPT-5 entered the chat. Altman’s latest brainchild doesn’t just crunch data; it predicts medical crises before symptoms appear. Cue the venture capitalists forming orderly queues.
Life-saving algorithms meet profit margins
Hospitals hate this one trick: AI that cuts diagnostic time from weeks to seconds. But let’s be real—the real lifesaver here is for CFOs staring down quarterly reports. Nothing cures budget shortfalls like a 900% productivity bump.
The cynical take
Sure, GPT-5 might prevent strokes. But let’s not pretend Morgan Stanley won’t use it to optimize layoffs first. The real $100B question? Whether the tech works—or just burns cash faster than a crypto hedge fund.
GPT-5’s low price puts pressure on competitors
According to OpenAI, GPT-5 is currently rolling out to all ChatGPT Plus, Pro, and Team subscribers worldwide on web, mobile, and desktop. Access for ChatGPT Enterprise and Edu plans is expected soon. Altman noted that OpenAI worked to keep costs low across all versions of the model, even at the premium tiers.
The launch of GPT-5 comes just days after OpenAI surprised the tech community by releasing two open-source models. According to Cryptopolitan, these releases, gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b, mark OpenAI’s first open-weight AI models since 2019.
Altman has called GPT-5 “the best model in the world,” though benchmark testing suggests it only slightly outperforms rival models from Anthropic, Google DeepMind, and xAI in certain areas, while trailing in others.
Still, GPT-5 is earning praise for its versatility, particularly in coding tasks, and for its aggressive pricing. However, Musk recently said Grok is better.
The API is priced at $1.25 per 1 million tokens for input and $10 per 1 million tokens for output, with cached input priced at $0.125 per 1 million tokens. This matches Google’s Gemini 2.5 Pro at the basic tier, but avoids higher fees Google charges for extremely heavy usage.
The pricing also significantly undercuts Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.1, which starts at $15 per 1 million input tokens and $75 per 1 million output tokens, though Anthropic offers discounts for prompt caching and batch processing.
According to TechCrunch, developers say the competitive rates make GPT-5 an attractive choice, especially for programming and automation tasks. Simon Willison, a developer featured in OpenAI’s launch video, called the pricing “aggressively competitive.”
Others, including HyperWrite CEO Matt Shumer, noted that GPT-5 is even cheaper than GPT-4o, meaning “intelligence per dollar continues to increase.” On social platforms like X and Hacker News, users described the pricing as a “killer” MOVE in the AI market.
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