AI Updates on 2025-08-07

OpenAI releases GPT-5, their most intelligent model to date, achieving #1 rankings across all categories in LMArena including text, web development, vision, coding, math, and creativity @OpenAI
GPT-5 introduces new training techniques that leverage interaction between pretraining and reasoning models, using o3 to create synthetic curriculum data for teaching complex topics @SebastienBubeck
GPT-5 is now available to all ChatGPT users including free tier, with GPT-5 mini and GPT-5 nano also launching in the API @OpenAI
GPT-5 features four new chat personalities (Cynic, Robot, Listener, Nerd) as a research preview, demonstrating advanced steerability capabilities @OpenAI
OpenAI launches two open-weight models gpt-oss-20b and smaller variant on Hugging Face, marking their first open model release since GPT-2 five years ago @TechCrunch

Meta offers unprecedented compensation packages exceeding $100M for AI model builders, reflecting the capital-intensive nature of AI training where salaries become a small fraction of total expenses compared to GPU hardware costs @AndrewYNg
Solo founder reports writing 10,000 lines of code daily using AI tools, choosing not to hire employees due to massive productivity gains from AI assistance @paulg
GPT-5 becomes the default model in Cursor, replacing Claude, with CEO calling it "the smartest coding model we've tried" @aidan_mclau
Claire Vo demonstrates successful AI-native startup model, running solo for 9 months with AI handling support, bugs, feedback gathering, and competitive research, achieving 50% personal output, 20% AI, 30% small team @clairevo
GPT-5 pricing is highly competitive, offering significant cost advantages over previous state-of-the-art models @simonw

Ethan Mollick demonstrates GPT-5 creating a procedural brutalist building creator with drag-and-edit functionality without touching any code, showcasing its autonomous development capabilities @emollick
GPT-5 integrates with Beatbot to generate dynamic music interfaces, previewing future AI-generated UX where interfaces become more dynamic and contextual @sama
Google DeepMind releases updated Perch model as open source for analyzing millions of hours of audio data to help conservationists identify species and animal populations @GoogleDeepMind
MIT researchers train AI to predict protein locations inside human cells, potentially unlocking new treatments for cancer and Alzheimer's @MIT
AI helps develop tougher plastics using stress-responsive molecules identified by machine learning, potentially reducing plastic waste @MIT

GPT-5 achieves 65.7% on ARC-AGI-1 and 9.9% on ARC-AGI-2, though Grok 4 remains state-of-the-art on ARC-AGI-2 with 15.9% @fchollet
GPT-5 significantly reduces hallucinations and improves factual accuracy, with better calibration for recognizing task limitations @polynoamial
Research demonstrates GRPO optimization for compound AI systems, showing how to optimize entire multi-component systems rather than individual components @dilarafsoylu
Chai Discovery launches Chai-2 for de novo antibody design with >15% hit rate versus 0.1% for previous AI methods, representing significant advancement in drug discovery @deedydas
o3 wins Kaggle Game Arena AI chess exhibition tournament, defeating Grok 4 in the finals @kaggle