OpenAI accused of showing misleading charts during GPT-5 launch, Sam Altman calls it ‘mega screwup’

OpenAI’s new GPT-5 model was released during a live-stream on Thursday where the company showed off many comparisons in order to certify the new model’s enhanced capabilities compared to the competition and its older models. However, during the event, the company went on to show off many charts that were simply untrue and this led to an apology from an OpenAI staffer.

In one of the charts presented during the live-stream, it shows GPT-5’s supposed prowess compared to OpenAI’s o3 in different parameters. In one of the parameters called ‘coding…