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Title: OpenAI's GPT-5 Sees a Big Surge in Enterprise Use

Link: https://it.slashdot.org/story/25/08/16/062324...

ChatGPT now has nearly 700 million weekly users, OpenAI says. But after
launching GPT-5 last week, critics bashed its less-intuitive feel, reports
CNBC, "ultimately leading the company to restore its legacy GPT-4 to paying
chatbot customers." Yet GPT-5 was always about cracking the enterprise market
"where rival Anthropic has enjoyed a head start," they write. And one week
in, "startups like Cursor, Vercel, and Factory say they've already made GPT-5
the default model in certain key products and tools, touting its faster
setup, better results on complex tasks, and a lower price." Some companies
said GPT-5 now matches or beats Claude on code and interface design, a space
Anthropic once dominated. Box, another enterprise customer, has been testing
GPT-5 on long, logic-heavy documents. CEO Aaron Levie told CNBC the model is
a "breakthrough," saying it performs with a level of reasoning that prior
systems couldn't match... Still, the economics are brutal. The models are
expensive to run, and both OpenAI and Anthropic are spending big to lock in
customers, with OpenAI on track to burn $8 billion this year. That's part of
why both Anthropic and OpenAI are courting new capital... GPT-5 is
significantly cheaper than Anthropic's top-end Claude Opus 4.1 - by a factor
of seven and a half, in some cases - but OpenAI is spending huge amounts on
infrastructure to sustain that edge. For OpenAI, it's a push to win customers
now, get them locked in and build a real business on the back of that
loyalty... GPT-5 API usage has surged since launch, with the model now
processing more than twice as much coding and agent-building work, and
reasoning use cases jumping more than eightfold, said a person familiar with
the matter who requested anonymity in order to discuss company data.
Enterprise demand is rising sharply, particularly for planning and multi-step
reasoning tasks. GPT-5�s traction over the past week shows how quickly
loyalties can shift when performance and price tip in OpenAI's favor. AI-
powered coding platform Qodo recently tested GPT-5 against top-tier models
including Gemini 2.5, Claude Sonnet 4, and Grok 4, and said in a blog post
that it led in catching coding mistakes. The model was often the only one to
catch critical issues, such as security bugs or broken code, suggesting
clean, focused fixes and skipping over code that didn't need changing, the
company said. Weaknesses included occasional false positives and some
redundancy. JetBrains has also adopted GPT-5 as the default for its AI
Assistant and for its new no-code tool Kineto, according to the article. But
Anthropic is still enjoying a great year too, with its annualized revenue
growing 17x year-over-year (according to "a person familiar with the matter
who requested anonymity"

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