GPT-5 hands-on: it exudes competence but doesn’t feel like a dramatic leap ahead of other LLMs, and the pricing is aggressively competitive with other providers (Simon Willison/Simon Willison’s Weblog)

Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog:
GPT-5 hands-on: it exudes competence but doesn't feel like a dramatic leap ahead of other LLMs, and the pricing is aggressively competitive with other providers  —  I've had preview access to the new GPT-5 model family for the past two weeks, and have been using GPT-5 as my daily-driver.