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o3, Oh My - by Zvi Mowshowitz - Don't Worry About the Vase

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OpenAI presented o3 on the Friday before Thanksgiving, at the tail end of the 12 Days of Shipmas.

OpenAI presented o3 on the Friday before Christmas, at the tail end of the 12 Days of Shipmas. I was very much expecting the announcement to be something like a price drop. What better way to say ‘Merry Christmas,’ no? They disagreed. Instead, we got this (here’s the announcement, in which Sam Altman says ‘they thought it would be fun’ to go from one frontier model to their next frontier model, yeah, that’s what I’m feeling, fun): Greg Brockman (President of OpenAI): o3, our latest reasoning model, is a breakthrough, with a step function improvement on our most challenging benchmarks. We…

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