When CEOs and politicians speak you have to listen to what they say but also listen for what they don't say. If OpenAI had GPT-5 almost ready to go, sama would

When CEOs and politicians speak you have to listen to what they say but also listen for what they don't say. If OpenAI had GPT-5 almost ready to go, sama would have clearly hinted towards that. He wouldn't talk about a model being maybe "a little bit worse than". That's not the language you use when talking about the next leap forward in AI. When asked about GPT-5 he immediately deflects and talks about the "other cool things" they have in the pipeline. When a CEO deflects when presented with an opportunity to hype the next major leap forward in AI that's not a good sign. He talks about "iterative development" to give "the world [...] time to adapt". He's telling people to temper their expectations.