AI Plateau? GPT-4.5 Fails to Deliver Any Real Breakthroughs

GPT-4.5 Shocks the World with Its Lack of Intelligence: A Disappointing Leap Forward?

The AI Hype Train Hits a Roadblock

For years, AI enthusiasts have been hyping up the next big leap in artificial intelligence, expecting mind-blowing advancements with every new iteration. OpenAI’s latest release, GPT-4.5, was supposed to be that leap. Instead, it has left the tech world scratching its head, asking: Is this it?

Yesterday, OpenAI unveiled the most expensive AI model ever produced, yet it fails to set new benchmarks, introduce groundbreaking capabilities, or outperform existing models in any significant way. Instead of ushering in the technological singularity that many anticipated, GPT-4.5 feels like a minor iteration—a model that’s good, but not great.

What Went Wrong?

Despite OpenAI’s attempts to market GPT-4.5 as an impressive step forward, early impressions suggest otherwise. Here’s why:

1. No Groundbreaking Improvements

GPT-4.5 was expected to crush previous records, introduce revolutionary capabilities, and redefine the way we interact with AI. Instead, it appears to be a slightly improved chatbot—a model that’s better at “vibes” and chatting naturally but fails to deliver on the intelligence front.

• Still hallucinates and generates false information.
• Fails to surpass major programming benchmarks (outperformed by DeepSeek).
• Offers no real advancements in reasoning or problem-solving.

2. Insanely Expensive, Yet Underwhelming

OpenAI has introduced GPT-4.5 as an elite-tier model, locking it behind a $200/month subscription for Pro users. On top of that, the pricing per token is astronomically high:

• $75 per million input tokens
• $150 per million output tokens

This pricing makes it nearly five times more expensive than models like Claude or Gemini, with no clear advantage in return. If anything, it raises a big question: Is OpenAI just making AI more expensive instead of making it better?

3. Sam Altman Didn't Even Show Up

Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI and one of the biggest AI evangelists, didn’t even attend the launch event. Instead, the product was demoed by interns, which is shocking considering how pivotal this release was supposed to be.

Compare this to the GPT-4 launch, where tech leaders were signing petitions to regulate AI due to fears of superintelligence. The contrast is staggering—GPT-4.5 arrived with a whimper, not a bang.

4. Worse at Coding and Science Tasks

If GPT-4.5 had crushed previous AI models in programming, math, or reasoning, there might have been some excitement. Instead, benchmarks tell a different story:

• It performs worse at programming tasks than DeepSeek, a far less hyped model.
• On the AER Polyglot Coding Benchmark, it fails to outperform existing models and is hundreds of times more expensive.
• While OpenAI claims it has a lower hallucination rate, early users report it still makes simple mistakes.

The AI Plateau: Are We Hitting a Wall?

One of the most troubling signs of GPT-4.5’s underwhelming release is what it suggests about the future of AI.

Sam Altman once claimed that AI models could scale infinitely, getting smarter and smarter as we poured more data and compute power into them. However, GPT-4.5 suggests the opposite—that we may be reaching the limits of pre-training and transformer-based AI models.

This could mean that OpenAI is struggling to train GPT-5 with meaningful improvements, which would explain why they released GPT-4.5 as a placeholder model instead. Altman even hinted that GPT-5 will be less about intelligence and more about routing—using different models for different tasks. If true, this would be a major letdown for those expecting a revolutionary leap in AI capabilities.

What's Next for AI?

Despite OpenAI’s dominance, its competition is catching up fast.

• Elon Musk’s xAI Grok is now being considered the best AI model by betting markets.
• DeepSeek is excelling in coding tasks at a fraction of the cost.
• Anthropic and Google continue to improve their own AI offerings.

If OpenAI doesn’t pull off something truly revolutionary with GPT-5, its position at the top could start slipping fast.

A Step Sideways, Not Forward

GPT-4.5 is not a bad AI model. But it’s not the world-changing leap that OpenAI hyped it up to be. Instead, it feels like a mid-tier upgrade, with marginal improvements in conversational ability, no major advancements in intelligence, and a ridiculous price tag.

For now, it seems that we’re not heading toward an AI-powered utopia or apocalypse. Instead, we may be entering what some are calling the Sigmoid of Sorrow—where AI progress slows down, expectations crash, and we realize that superintelligence is still far, far away.

Until GPT-5 proves otherwise, the AI revolution may be taking a much-needed reality check.

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