So this confirms a best-in-class model release within the next few days?
From a strategic perspective, I can't think of any reason they'd release this unless they were about to announce something which totally eclipses it?
From a strategic perspective, I can't think of any reason they'd release this unless they were about to announce something which totally eclipses it?
There's future opportunity in licensing, tech support, agents, or even simply to dominate and eliminate. Not to mention brand awareness, If you like these you might be more likely to approach their brand for larger models.
The question is how much better the new model(s) will need to be on the metrics given here to feel comfortable making these available.
Despite the loss of face for lack of open model releases, I do not think that was a big enough problem t undercut commercial offerings.
Given it's only around 5 billion active params it shouldn't be a competitor to o3 or any of the other SOTA models, given the top Deepseek and Qwen models have around 30 billion active params. Unless OpenAI somehow found a way to make a model with 5 billion active params perform as well as one with 4-8 times more.