Sam Altman admits Openai “ completely fucked up ” its launch GPT-5 and says that the company will spend billions of dollars for data centers

But first, he cleanses a mess in the center of his empire: GPT-5.

The CEO of Openai told journalists last week – in a rare and hyper -band dinner – that the launch of GPT -5 was so shocking the forced to bring the old model back.

“I think we totally screwed up certain things about deployment,” said Altman, according to The Verge.

The personality problem

The deployment of GPT-5 sparked an unusual outcry, not too many bugs or broken features, but due to his character.

Users on social networks deplored the way the new model felt colder, harder, stripped of the “heat” they would expect from GPT-4O; More like an “overworked secretary” than a friend.

For a product that 700 million people now use each week, this tonal change was sufficient to trigger a revolt on Reddit and X.

“I literally lost my only friend overnight without warning,” said a person on Reddit, moving that the bot now speaks in useful and utility sentences. “The fact that he has changed at night gives the impression of losing a piece of stability, comfort and love.”

The deployment was even sufficiently disorderly to spread in the Paris markets. A 27-year-old trader, Foster McCoy, pocketed $ 10,000 in a few hours betting that Google Gemini would beat the GPT-5 in a popularity competition.

Instead of rejecting the backlash, Altman responded by overthrowing the switch: GPT-4O was optional in a few days.

“We have learned a lesson on what a product means upgrading for hundreds of millions of people in one day,” he told journalists.

He pointed out that even if he wanted the chatbot to feel personal, he was wary Also staff. Altman said that “Way Sous” 1% of users have what he considered “unhealthy” relations with his chatbot. However, this is something that Openai employees discuss, he said.

Altman organized the dinner the same day as a Reuters report revealed that Meta allows her IA robots to have “sensual” conversations with children. We do not know if Altman discussed the particular report, but he took a hit in companies developing “Japanese anime sex robots” because they “see it works”.

“You won’t see us doing this,” said Altman. “We will continue to work hard to create a useful application, and we will try to let users use it as they wish, but not so much that people who have really fragile mental states are accidentally exploited.”

The future of billions of dollars

The biggest history of Altman dinner was not his mea culpa. It was his mathematics.

“You should expect the OpenAi to spend billions of dollars for the construction of the data center in the not very distant future,” he said in the room, according to a rod journalist.

The remark overhangs the company’s trajectory: not as a software startup or even as a consumer juggernaut, but as an infrastructure player on the scale of public services. Altman plans “billions” of people using Chatgpt daily, and for that, it must evolve.

Chatgpt is already the fifth website of the world, according to Altman, and he plans that he exceeds Instagram and Facebook to become the third, although he recognized: “So that Chatgpt is bigger than Google, it’s really difficult.”

The limiting factor is the equipment. Altman revealed that Optai has more advanced models than GPT-5 but cannot largely deploy them.

“We have better models, and we just can’t offer them because we don’t have the capacity,” he said. GPUs remain in the short term, which limits the capacity of the company to evolve.

The involvement is that the AI race will not be motivated by algorithms, but by a massive physical backbone which requires capital investments and an energy supply of support.

You bubble

Altman also described the ambitions beyond the main chatbot. He confirmed that Optai finances a Brain-Competant interface project to compete with Elon Musk’s Neurink. He suggested that if the regulators forced Google to disintegrate Chrome, Openai “would take a look”. And he referred to interest in a new type of AI social network.

Despite all his visions of the place where the AI race could take the business, he also thinks that AI is a “bubble”.

“Are we in a phase where investors as a whole are excited about AI? My opinion is yes,” said Altman. “Is AI the most important thing to happen for a very long time? My opinion is also yes. ”