Sam Altman Drops The Hottest Mixtape of 2025: GPT-5… For Free.

So, our boy Sam Altman just made a move that simultaneously excited nerds and annihilated at least two dozen venture-backed “vibe coding” startups in less than 24 hours with its newest GPT-5 release yesterday. Why? Because they made it free… for everyone. 

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Yes, seriously. The most advanced consumer AI model ever released is now available to your aunt and even the guy down the street using ChatGPT to write angry HOA emails (a.k.a. me). All for zero dollars. Wall Street didn’t blink, but it should’ve. 

In short, GPT-5 isn’t just a little faster or a little smarter. It’s a full-stack kill shot across multiple sectors. Writing, coding, customer support, healthcare, law, app development… if your business model involves human cognition delivered over the internet or a simple phone call, congratulations: you now compete with a superintelligence that doesn’t ask for equity or health insurance. OpenAI says GPT-5 hallucinates less, reasons more, and “feels more human.” Which is basically the Fabio way of saying it lies less, gaslights you with a gentler tone, and won’t openly tell you how to make thermite. 

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Additionally, the “Newman” of Elon’s existence (Sam Altman), launched vibe coding live on stage… a feature where you describe an app, and GPT-5 just... builds it. In seconds. So for the 47 “AI-powered productivity tools” on Product Hunt this week: may your runway be short and your founders quietly return to their mothers' basements. As for the receipts of the models (a.k.a. Only interesting to say the Stanford grads who yeeted themselves out of school to raise $16m from a16z and SoftBank for a vibe coding wrapper startup… and just got unalived by OpenAI’s release): GPT-5, GPT-5-mini, and GPT-5-nano. Nano goes in your toaster eventually. Mini’s for your phone. The full-fat GPT-5 is what you use when your law firm downsizes 60% of associates but still expects discovery done by Monday. 

Of course, OpenAI also claims they tested GPT-5 for over 5,000 hours before letting it loose… presumably to ensure it doesn’t start inventing religions again or telling depressed teens to start bullet journaling instead of eating. Translation: The previous version has been quite unhinged lately. However, allegedly, the hallucinations are now the way of the dinosaurs as Altman says having GPT-5 is like having a team of Ph.D.s in your pocket. He forgot to mention it’s also like detonating an EMP in every industry still pretending it has a five-year AI roadmap.

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Meanwhile, Microsoft’s already plugged GPT-5 into Copilot, meaning it now lives inside Excel, Word, and Azure like some kind of productivity parasite that never sleeps. Siri, define “moat”. Box CEO Aaron Levie, who beta tested GPT-5, called it “a complete breakthrough”, but the real crazy stat here is that in case anyone forgot… GPT 4 launched 2.5 years ago. Since then, OpenAI has quietly grown into a company flirting with a $500 billion valuation and 700 million weekly users. Which is just insane. 

So yeah… OpenAI is definitely living its main character life more than ever right now. And we all may or may not be witnessing the birth of Skynet in real time. But hey, who cares about AI’s threat to existence when you can use it for kneecapping your mother-in-law’s criticism. 

This guy may be onto something here…

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Of course, while GPT-5 is absolutely melting minds right now… keep in mind, simply adding “please” and “thank you” is still robbing OpenAI blind in the “tens of millions”. Meaning, keep your eyes on this story as more details come out, and place your bets accordingly. New model means new chaos… and it could benefit's portfolio handsomely with the right moves... maybe. Until next time, friends… 

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