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I like this post. I see this confusion all the time! What’s the difference between ChatGPT and gpt-5 or gpt-4o, and so on. OpenAI’s carefully crafted naming schemes don’t help. Though, I come from AWS so glass houses.

Anyway, agents are control systems that using planning, tools, and a collection of underlying models. ChatGPT is an agent. What kind? The kind optimized for the general user looking to do work with public knowledge. That’s the best definition I can come up with.

Anyway, let’s make sure people understand the difference between AI systems and AI models. The former is where a lot of startup activity will be for a decade. The latter will be in the hands of a few well funded behemoths.