GPT-5 Turbo Released
Narrative
Faster, cheaper GPT-5 variant. 90% of Opus performance at 50% cost. Optimized for high-volume API use. $8/$24 pricing.
Reality
Benchmarks: 89.1% MMLU-Pro (vs 92.3% for full GPT-5). Latency 40% faster. Cost reduction drives migration from GPT-4. Quality trade-off acceptable for most use cases.
Implication
Established two-tier pricing model. Cost optimization became API priority. DeepSeek price pressure forcing adaptation. Speed vs quality spectrum expanded.