28/02/2025
OpenAI just released GPT 4.5, but with the API price point of $75/1M input and $150/1M output, and rumored to have a subscription cost of $500/month, no normal person - or business - will be able to afford it.
OpenAI is on its last legs. Their desperate attempts to cling to the top spot are crumbling, and they’re incapable of holding on in any meaningful way. Especially after losing their chief AI scientist, Ilya Sutskever, and the death of one of its whistleblower and former top employee, Suchir Balaji.
For months, they hyped up some mysterious "o3" model, claiming it outshone the competition—yet conveniently kept it hidden from the public. With GPT-4.5, it seems they’ve thrown together a juiced-up version, pushed to the limit not for sustainability or profit, but just to slap something out there and call it a win—a temporary placeholder to prop up their fading reputation.
But here’s the kicker: if no one can actually use it, it’s irrelevant. Every company has projects in development; OpenAI’s the only one constantly bragging about vaporware to cling to a leadership image they’ve already lost. They’re not ahead—they’re just loud.
