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GPT-5 Turbo Released

Date: May 12, 2025
Company: OpenAI
Category: Models & Research

Narrative

Faster, cheaper GPT-5 variant. 90% of Opus performance at 50% cost. Optimized for high-volume API use. $8/$24 pricing.

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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.

Tags

  • openai
  • model-release
  • pricing
  • api