The Ledger

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Opinion
Kantrowitz: OpenAI inflated 'doing' stats to conceal lack of agent usage
“I think what we're seeing in the numbers here is the vast majority of activity within ChatGPT is really thought partner. It is a thought partner tool, and the agentic stuff, of course, is super early, but they didn't want maybe the numbers, and this is maybe s…”
Alex Kantrowitz Sep 22, 2025 ▶ 9:18 Revealed: OpenAI Tells Us ChatGPT's Major Use Cases
Assertion Partly supported
GPT-5 and Chinese AI model Kimi readily find bugs and write exploits
“You can just ask GPT-V to go find these bugs and it will go do it for you. You can just ask Kimi, which is an open source Chinese model. It will go write you these exploits.”
Alex Stamos Jun 28, 2026 ▶ 7:11 AI’s True Cyber Risk: Fable, Mythos, China, and The Rest — With Alex Stamos
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Lightcap: Partners Call GPT-5 Most Capable Coding Model
“I mentioned companies like Cursor, JetBrains, Windsurf you know, Cognition and others that we work with who anecdotally are all you know, have all said that GPT-V now feels like the most capable coding model, whether that's in an interactive coding environment…”
Brad Lightcap Aug 8, 2025 ▶ 25:27 OpenAI COO Brad Lightcap: GPT-5's Capabilities, Why It Matters, and Where AI Goes Next
Prediction Didn’t hold up
The public will see a GPT-5 level AI model by year-end
“Because by the end of this year, we'll get to see hopefully what a GPT-V level model looks like, and we'll learn whether we're on the path to some kind of super intelligence.”
Dwarkesh Patel May 15, 2024 ▶ 2:21 AI Scaling, Alignment, and the Path to Superintelligence — With Dwarkesh Patel
Assertion Partly supported
Lightcap: GPT-5 dynamically chooses whether to reason deeply per query
“GPT-V is it's our next generation flagship model. It does something really interesting, which is it actually combines into one model the ability to dynamically choose whether to think hard about a problem and reason about it to give you an answer or not.”
Brad Lightcap Aug 8, 2025 ▶ 0:30 OpenAI COO Brad Lightcap: GPT-5's Capabilities, Why It Matters, and Where AI Goes Next
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Lightcap: GPT-5 is vastly improved in writing, coding, health, and speed
“GPT-V abstracts all of that, so it makes that decision for you and it's actually a smarter model, so you're gonna get a better answer in all cases, regardless of whether you're using the thinking mode or not and it's vastly improved on things like writing, cod…”
Brad Lightcap Aug 8, 2025 ▶ 1:07 OpenAI COO Brad Lightcap: GPT-5's Capabilities, Why It Matters, and Where AI Goes Next
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