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Peak HN comment

Doesn't make it untrue.

Agents that can search the internet exist for a while now and have been essentially solved and happily used in platforms like Perplexity.

It's really "meh", very far from revolutionary.

Keep in mind this company is trying to convince everybody they need 500B USD now (through the Stargate project).

To go from partially automated to fully automated is thousands of non trivial edge cases and unforeseen decision points that must be tamed.

To say this is trivial is like saying the one shot ai prompted twitter clone is the same thing as twitter.

Peak HN indeed.

Let us know when your Bing-bot scores over 20% on the HLE benchmark.

It's literally a browsing agent that searches the internet and they know the questions in advance when preparing the agent

Without internet: 10%

With internet: 23%

In addition:

> We found that the ground-truth answers for one dataset were widely leaked online

in very small letters, and they blocked these URLs at runtime but not training time.

It's not bad, but not revolutionary at all compared to the leap that was GPT-2 from GPT-3, or GPT-4o to DeepSeek-R1

If they "knew the questions in advance," why'd they need Internet access at all? The ability to use the same data sources humans would use is not the insult you seem to think it is.

Again: the assertion was yours, so let us know the results of your own work.

I haven’t tried the OpenAI version yet, as I’m on their peasant-level $20 plan, but the Google equivalent is way superior to Perplexity (I use both extensively). The web search Perplexity carries out is superficial compared to the Google product; it misses a large percentage of what Gemini Deep Research finds, and for a particular task in my business this makes a huge difference.

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