Sam Altman says OpenAI have an internal AI model that ranks as the 50th best competitive programmer in the world and by the end of 2025 their model will be ranked #1

Sam Altman says GPT-5 will be smarter than him and by implication will exceed human-level intelligence and be a "crazy high IQ tool"

Anthropic cofounder Ben Mann says they had an early version of Claude in March 2022 that they chose not to launch publicly out of concerns that it "would cause too much acceleration" and even though it was "pretty basic", delaying the release allowed 6 more months to work on safety