Should CIOs Care About New AI Models?
CIODIVE, Friday, August 15th, 2025
Discussion about diminishing returns picked up momentum following OpenAI's release of GPT-5. Other analysts say: Not so fast.
CIOs are tracking the AI vendor market as new models and updates are released, such as OpenAI's highly anticipated GPT-5 last week and Anthropic's expanded Sonnet 4 earlier this week.
'GPT-5 was on my radar, not that it will be immediately put to use in some business use case,' Feroz Merchhiya, CIO for the City of Santa Monica, said in an email. 'I had it on my radar to explore how well we could solve AI challenges with GPT-5 that GPT-4 and others couldn't solve.'