Dave Morin: OpenAI peaked in Q2 2024 and has declined since
Dave Morin · #113 GPT-5 Disappoints: The End of the AI Gold Rush? · More or Less Podcast · Aug 22, 2025 · at 12:36
Dave Morin argues on the More or Less podcast that OpenAI's technological and compute performance hit an inflection point in early to mid-2024.
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“Whatever the compute configuration plus the software configuration that was going on in Q two of 20, 24 at open AI was the most powerful, most awesome version. And everything's been downhill from here.”
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