On the morning of the announcement, many of us in tech and business were genuinely excited. This was builtup as one of the biggest product launches in recent times… right up there with the most anticipated moments in tech history.
The livestream lacked the showmanship of a Google I/O or Apple keynote. No fireworks or jaw dropping droping demo. Some of the use cases shown didn’t wow the average user, and the benchmark gains looked incremental rather than the 10x leap some had anticipated. And yet, something bigger happened in the background… the floor moved up for everyone.
Over 700 million people now have direct access to frontier level AI, either free or at a much lower cost. Reasoning is sharper, coding has caught up with the best, and errors are down. Stronger performance on HealthBench means models are now surpassing average physician accuracy in certain diagnostics.
For India, this matters. The economics alone could unlock use cases we once thought as too costly or not worth the effort. Hyper deflation in the price of intelligence will change what’s possible. Problems that once felt too complex or expensive can now be attacked directly. I read somewhere, "AGI may not arrive with a bang, but with a price cut."
The race for cheaper, more capable models will accelerate with Google likely to announce its next generation soon, and cost per unit of intelligence will dive significantly. Google is playing a volume plus integration game, embedding Gemini deep into Search and Workspace.
Some say GPT 5 is a better model, but there is strategic throttling at play… not releasing the best internal models for economic, competitive, or safety reasons.
For most businesses, this is the moment to go AI native. Not just pilots, but full scale products. Reimagine workflows not just to make them faster, but to design them for an AI first world with the right guardrails in place.
Personally i have already run some heavy data workflows on GPT 5 and the model is steady, fast, and genuinely impressive. The launch may have been quiet… but the opportunity is not. The way i think about this is that the real risk now is not in what AI can or cannot do… it is in our own failure to imagine what we could build with it.
With access widening and the cost of intelligence dropping fast, how do you see this shift reshaping the way businesses build… and the way all of us live and work?
Originally posted on LinkedIn on August 10, 2025.
Srinivas Jain 