[drilbo]

>It’s likely their is a higher parameter count model in the works and this makes it easy to distinguish between the two.

in this case it looks like this is the higher parameter count version, the 2b was released previously. (Not that it excludes them from making an even larger one in the future, altho that seems atypical of video/image/audio models)

re: GP: I sincerely wish 'Open'AI were this forthcoming with things like param count. If they have a 'b' in their naming, it's only to distingish it from the previous 'a' version, and don't ask me what an 'o' is supposed to mean.

[ericrallen]

Good point! I forgot there was a smaller one out there already.

OpenAI’s naming conventions have gotten out of hand.

I believe the “o” is supposed to mean “Omni” and indicate that the model is multi-modal.