From the phrasing of the second quote it seems like GPT-5 might be synonymous with their conception of AGI or at least agentic AI. Maybe it was just bad phrasin

From the phrasing of the second quote it seems like GPT-5 might be synonymous with their conception of AGI or at least agentic AI. Maybe it was just bad phrasing and he was using GPT-5 as a stand in for the ultimate goal but to me at least it seems like they're holding back on it because they're still trying to get the agentic and reasoning parts right. I think I agree with his musings about Lex's reaction that maybe they aren't releasing iterations fast enough for them not to look like big leaps. I would think they'd have something by now that could at least be labeled GPT-4.5 and be deployed as an incremental improvement. Maybe now with Claude 3 Opus on the scene they'll need to ship something soon even if it isn't a huge improvement.