[samvher]

For me the excitement is that around the o3 announcement I had a feeling like we were heading to an OpenAI / Sam Altman controlled dystopia. This resets that - you can run the model yourself, you can modify it yourself, it's essentially on par with the best public models, and it gives hope that the smaller players have a fighting chance going forward. They also published their innovations bringing back some of the feeling of open science that used to be in ML research but which mostly went away.

[xnx]

Google models are already in the lead in many areas in capability and cost, so I never felt like OpenAI was dominant. OpenAI was first to make a splash, but ChatGPT is in a ~5 way tie in terms of what it can do.