Was GPT-5 Underwhelming? OpenAI Co-founder Leaves, Figure02 Arrives, Character.AI Gutted, GPT-5 2025

Did GPT-5 just get delayed to 2025? Brockman takes leave, Schulman just leaves and OpenAI co-founders are abandoning ship. Plus Figure02, Musk lawsuit, Character.AI hollowed out, new Gemini 1.5 Pro, Dev Day hints and more. The race narrows to just Meta, Anthropic, Google and OpenAI. I’ll cover what this all says about the eventual release of GPT-5 and the race to ever smarter models…

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OpenAI Departures: https://www.theinformation.com/articles/trio-of-leaders-leave-openai?rc=sy0ihq
https://x.com/gdb/status/1820644694264791459
https://x.com/johnschulman2/status/1820610863499509855
Advanced Voice Mode: https://x.com/CrisGiardina/status/1818627205217272098
Sam Altman Article: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/07/25/sam-altman-ai-democracy-authoritarianism-future/
OpenAI Dev Day Nugget: https://openai.com/devday/
GPT-5 Training Start: https://openai.com/index/openai-board-forms-safety-and-security-committee/
Musk Lawsuit: https://regmedia.co.uk/2024/08/05/musk_v_openai.pdf
10x Compute Llama 4: https://www.theregister.com/2024/08/01/meta_q2_2024/
White House Vibe Shift on Open Source: https://apnews.com/article/ai-open-source-white-house-f62009172c46c5003ddd9481aa49f7c3?s=09
Character AI Swallowed: https://fortune.com/2024/08/02/google-character-ai-founders-microsoft-inflection-amazon-adept/
Google DeepMind AGI Hype: https://x.com/shanelegg?lang=en
Lmsys Battles: https://huggingface.co/spaces/lmsys/gpt-4o-mini_battles
API Spend Shift (anecdotal): https://x.com/nbashaw/status/1820633115326611916
Figure 02 Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SRVJaOg9Co
https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/1820792993579925554
SearchGPT Waitlist: https://openai.com/index/searchgpt-prototype/
VASA-1 Video Avatar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTAuzFzMt5Y

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