Title: GPT-5 & The $100M Glow-Up: Hype vs. Reality

Description:Silicon Valley is buzzing over GPT-5’s launch — but is it really the $100M coding revolution it’s being sold as? Asif Waliuddin breaks down the real story behind the model’s performance, the “middleware squeeze” threatening AI startups, and what enterprise leaders need to know to avoid vendor lock-in while keeping AI productivity gains.

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📄 SHOW NOTES WITH SOURCES

1. The Verge — “GPT-5 failed the hype test”

2. Financial Times — “Reception to GPT-5 underwhelms”

3. Tom’s Guide — “OpenAI’s most powerful AI model changes everything — sort of”

4. Baytech Consulting — “GPT-5 Executive Guide 2025”

5. Microsoft Azure Blog — “GPT-5 in Azure AI Foundry”

6. OpenAI — “Introducing GPT-5 for Developers”

7. PC Gamer — “OpenAI’s performance charts in the GPT-5 launch video raise questions”

8. VentureBeat — “Claude 4.1 dominates coding tests days before GPT-5”

9. Replit, Lovable, Claude Code — Public revenue data from press releases and interviews

   • Replit Blog

   • Lovable Blog

   • Claude Code Overview

10. Perplexity — Financial model and expense classification

11. Andrej Karpathy — Commentary on “vibe coding”

12. EU AI Act — Official regulatory text and analysis

13. California AI Laws — Legislative summaries and business impact studies

14. Deloitte — AI governance and risk management survey

15. McKinsey — The State of AI in 2024

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