I don’t think counting from announcement to announcement is valid here, no. They waited to announce o1 until they had o1-mini and o1-preview ready to ship: i. e., until they’ve already came around to optimizing these models for compute-efficiency and to setting up the server infrastructure for running them. That couldn’t have taken zero time. Separately, there’s evidence they’ve had them in-house for a long time, between the Q* rumors from a year ago and the Orion/Strawberry rumors from a few months ago.
This is not the case for o3. At the very least, it is severely unoptimized, taking thousands of dollars per task (i. e., it’s not even ready for the hypothetical $2000/month subscription they floated).
That is,
Do you think that o1 wasn’t the best model (of this type) that OpenAI had internally at the point of the o1 announcement? If so, do you think that o3 isn’t the best model (of this type) that OpenAI has internally now?
Yes and yes.
The case for “o3 is the best they currently have in-house” is weaker, admittedly. But even if it’s not the case, and they already have “o4″ internally, the fact that o1 (or powerful prototypes) existed well before the September announcement seem strongly confirmed, and that already disassembles the narrative of “o1 to o3 took three months”.
I don’t think counting from announcement to announcement is valid here, no. They waited to announce o1 until they had o1-mini and o1-preview ready to ship: i. e., until they’ve already came around to optimizing these models for compute-efficiency and to setting up the server infrastructure for running them. That couldn’t have taken zero time. Separately, there’s evidence they’ve had them in-house for a long time, between the Q* rumors from a year ago and the Orion/Strawberry rumors from a few months ago.
This is not the case for o3. At the very least, it is severely unoptimized, taking thousands of dollars per task (i. e., it’s not even ready for the hypothetical $2000/month subscription they floated).
That is,
Yes and yes.
The case for “o3 is the best they currently have in-house” is weaker, admittedly. But even if it’s not the case, and they already have “o4″ internally, the fact that o1 (or powerful prototypes) existed well before the September announcement seem strongly confirmed, and that already disassembles the narrative of “o1 to o3 took three months”.