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Artificial Intelligence

GPT-5: public availability and early impressions

After months of rumors, OpenAI released GPT-5 in early August. The first weeks of real-world use show a picture less spectacular than the marketing suggested and more useful than many expected. It is worth separating what is genuinely new from what is merely incremental.

Artificial Intelligence

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: the intermediate step toward the 4 family

Claude 3.7 Sonnet, released by Anthropic on February 24, is a careful refinement rather than a generational jump. The same model answers in standard mode or in an extended thinking mode you switch on per request, trading tokens and latency for better results on hard problems. It also ships Claude Code, a command-line tool for programmers.

Artificial Intelligence

o3 in public: the reasoning leap is confirmed

o3-mini, the first public release of OpenAI's o3 reasoning series, clearly improves logic, math, and complex code over GPT-4o, though it answers slower and still hallucinates facts. This analysis, based on weeks of real use, explains where it pays off and where it does not.