Sam Altman addresses ‘bumpy’ GPT-5 rollout, bringing 4o back, and the ‘chart crime’

Photo: Sam Altman speaks onstage during TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco, California on September 19, 2017. Photo credit: Steve Jennings / Getty Images for TechCrunch via Flickr. CC BY 2.0. Article by Julie Bort. TechCrunch – August 8, 2025.

During a Reddit ask-me-anything session on Friday, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and key members of the GPT-5 team were peppered with questions about the new model and requests to bring back its previous model, GPT-4o. They also asked Altman about the most embarrassing – and perhaps funniest – snafu in the presentation, the “chart crime.” […]

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