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release blog post author: this is definitely a research preview

ceo: it's ready

the pricing is probably a mixture of dealing with GPU scarcity and intentionally discouraging actual users. I can't imagine the pressure they must be under to show they are releasing and staying ahead, but Altman's tweet makes it clear they aren't really ready to sell this to the general public yet.

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Yeap, that the thing, they are not ahead anymore. Not since last summer at least. Yes they have probably largest customer base, but their models are not the best for a while already.

They don't even have the largest customer base. Google is serving AI Overviews at the top of their search engine to an order of magnitude more people.

Eh, I think o1-pro is by far the most capable model available right now in terms of pure problem solving.

I think Claude has consistently been ahead for a year ish now and is back ahead again for my use cases with 3.7.

You can try Claude 3.7-Thinking and Grok 3 Think. 10 times cheaper, as good, or very similar to o1-pro.

I haven’t tried Grok yet so can’t speak to that, but I find o1-pro is much stronger than 3.7-thinking for e.g. distributed systems and concurrency problems.

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