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OpenAI Has Some “Bad News” About Its New GPT-4.5 Model
Prepare to be underwhelmed
OpenAI would like you to know that its new GPT-4.5 model, released yesterday, is going to suck.
That might seem like a strange marketing message from one of the world’s most exciting companies, but that’s essentially what OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said about the release of the 4.5 model.
On social media, Altman was quick to point out that the model is not a new frontier model. At best, it’s a small tweak — an iterative improvement to OpenAI’s flagship GPT-4 model.
“A heads up: this isn’t a reasoning model and won’t crush benchmarks,” Altman wrote when announcing the release. Altman also said “bad news: it is a giant, expensive model”
Why the weird hedging? It probably has to do with the fact that, as OpenAI has developed its most recent model, the sands of the AI landscape have been shifting under its feet.
Two years ago, when OpenAI started training its newest model, the name of the game was to build something as gigantic as possible.
GPT-3.5 was trained using an estimated 175 billion parameters, whereas GPT-4 surpasses 100 trillion parameters.
Many in the industry expected that further progress would come from making new models even…
