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Public story · 2026-03-11 · source-backed
Altman launched GPT-5.4 calling it his "favorite model to talk to" but admitted three weaknesses: frontend UI taste is "far behind Opus 4.6 and Gemini 3.1 Pro," it misses real-world context, and it stops short before finishing agentic tasks. Independent blind evaluation by Nate's Newsletter found GPT-5.4 "not the best, not the worst, but the most interesting model" — beats Opus at quantitative modeling but fails trick questions that every other frontier model got right. Task-matched model selection is now essential. Fortune
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