I expected some sort of way to actually get o1 preview retrained (and downloadable).
Also, calling it O1 preview on just 7 benchmarks is not correct. What if someone comes up with some use cases where O1 preview does better than this.
apart from that, good that things are becoming cheaper.
If you a headline saying 'make your own James Webb Space Telescope in a weekend' they're offering a project that leverages some tech concept from the JWST, like mirror arrays or a particular sort of sensor. They're not promising that you will be able to build a space-capable telescope the size of a semi truck.
The vocabulary used to describe the culturally prevailing leader will be used to explain similar concepts and create analogies. That's an easier tool to communicate to the masses than crafting super tailored messages for only domain experts.
It's why we keep doing this, and it's also why trademarks become generics.
"Google it", "Uber for X", "band aid", "the band sounds like Y", "the actor looks like Z", etc. etc.
This is a core part of how human language works and how we as a species communicate with one another.
"Wow! Quite a feat to deliver an iconic design, a 631 horsepower engine, and performance of 0-150 mph in 15.4 seconds on such a small budget!"
"Actually what we mean is, like the Lamborghini Huracan, our vehicle has two seats."
Also, at $450 no one expect it to truly be a from-scratch complete recreation of a model that cost hundreds of millions to produce.
Instead, they built a model (via fine tuning) using similar technique and got similar results within their attempted are of experimentation that they created their training data for.
I personally was not mislead by the title at all.
There are open source models better than OpenAI's image and video models, and OpenAI is not winning the LLM space by any measure.
The hobbyist absolutely won't feel as though they're trying to fake a Huracan with a Camry here. They're going to build useful products with whatever they choose, regardless of what vendor or open source project produced the model.
Your analogy is silly. OpenAI is more like Band-Aid(r) than Lamborghini Huracan.
Verdict: dishonest