Imagine being told you could rent a genius. Not hire, not bribe, not even seduce — just rent. That’s the pitch behind GPT-5 Pro, OpenAI’s most advanced language model, which — if you believe the hype — scored a Mensa-certified IQ of 148. A number that places it squarely in the “genius” bracket, the same club as Einstein, Stephen Hawking, and that one smug guy at the pub quiz who doesn’t let you forget he “almost” got into Oxford.

But unlike your neighborhood Mensa freak, GPT-5 Pro or GPT-5 Thinking Pro isn’t some eccentric human with a cluttered loft and an obsession with Sudoku. It’s a subscription service. Fork over $200 a month and you’re granted access to reasoning power that, according to its fans, can code entire apps, architect business models, and solve complex logic problems in ways that make yesterday’s AI models look like a Speak & Spell.

The catch? This new form of digital genius is gated. If you can’t pay, you don’t play. And in the emerging “AI gold rush,” that makes intelligence itself — our species’ proudest evolutionary asset — a pay-to-win mechanic.

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