Plugins were a failure. GPTs are a little better, but I still don't see the product market fit. GPT-4 is still king, but not by that much any more. It's not even clear that they're doing great research, because they don't publish.
GPT-5 has to be incredibly good at this point, and I'm not sure that it will be.
But so far nobody is even in the same ballpark. And not just freely distributed models, but proprietary ones backed by big money, as well.
It really makes one wonder what kind of secret sauce OpenAI has. Surely it can't just be all that compute that Microsoft bought them, since Google could easily match that, and yet...
Miqu is pretty good. Sure, it's a leak...but there's nothing special there. It's just a 70b llama2 finetune.