I’m extremely skeptical because of all those articles claiming OpenAI was freaking out about Gemini - now it turns out they just casually had a better model ready to go? I don’t buy it.
They had to rush it out, I'm sure the internal safety folks are not happy about it.
how do you know this is a better model? I wouldn't take any of the numbers at face value especially when all they have done is more/better post-training and thus the base pre-trained model capabilities is still the same. The model may just elicit some of the benchmark capabilities better. You really need to spend time using the model to come to any reliable conclusions.
It's very inline with their PR strategy, or lack of.
I (and others) have a strong suspicion that they can modulate models intelligence in almost real time by adjusting quantization and thinking time.
It seems if anyone wants, they can really gas a model up in the moment and back it off after the hype wave.