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Even as criticism targets major model providers, his inability to answer clearly about revenue & dismissing it as a future concern reveals a great deal about today's market. It's remarkable how effortlessly he, Mira, and others secure billions, confident they can thrive in such an intensely competitive field.

Without a moat defined by massive user bases, computing resources, or data, any breakthrough your researchers achieve quickly becomes fair game for replication. May be there will be new class of products, may be there is a big lock-in these companies can come up with. No one really knows!

Anthropic emphasizes safety but their acceptance of Middle Eastern sovereign funding undermines claims of independence.

Their safety-first image doesn’t fully hold up under scrutiny.

While I don’t disagree that Google is the company you can’t bet against when it comes to AI, saying other companies are done is a stretch. If they have a significant moat then they should be at the top all the time by then which is not the case though.

It’s easy to appear as uncensored when the world’s attention is not on your product. Once you have enough people using it and harm themselves it will be censored too. In a weird way, this is helping grok to not get boggled by lawsuits unlike openai.

I don’t agree that speed by itself is a big factor. It may target a certain audience but I don’t mind waiting for a correct output rather than too many turns with a faster model.

Not necessarily. I’m sure there is many cheaper android phones that are technically better in specs but many users won’t change. Once you are familiar, bought into the ecosystem getting rid of it is very hard. I’m lazy myself compared to how I was several years ago. The curious and experimental folks are a minority and the majority ll stick with what works initially instead of constantly analyzing what’s best all the time

99% of the world doesn’t care a dime about oss. It’s all saas and what you host behind the saas is only a concern for enterprise (and not every enterprise). And openai or Anthropic can just stop training and host oss models as well.

Use --search option when you start codex

My take on long context for many frontier models is not about support but the accuracy drops drastically as you increase the context. Even if a model claims to support 10M context, reality is it doesn’t perform well when you saturate. Curious to hear others perspective on this

Is this to help private shipping companies like FedEx and UPS? Sometimes you have to do something even if it’s expensive

Looks like OpenAI imagegen is still the SOTA?

Saying you’d donate to pets is one thing but saying it will never go to a human is so out of touch with the world. I’m sure you have great intentions but I just don’t see how you can take that approach.

Same! It has gotten a lot more expensive and even if I pay for premium, content creators show sponsored ads. I don’t know what I’m paying for.

Because in my use cases they are? Coding and math, science research are my primary use cases and codex with o3 and o3 consistently outperforms others in complex tasks for me. I can’t say a model is better just to appeal to HN. If another model is as good as o3 id use that in a second.

Having tried both I’d say o3 is in a league of it’s own compared to 3.7 or even Gemini 2.5 pro. The benchmarks may show not a lot of gain but that matters a lot when the task is very complex. What’s surprising is that they announced it last November and only now it’s released a month back now? (I’m guessing lots of safety took time but no idea). Can’t wait for o4!

Cursor/Windsurf or other IDEs are not the right comparison. I do use them all the time and I don’t see them going away anytime soon or may be never.

As for the use case of “Give a simple or detailed prompt and the entire project and let the model do its stuff” codex has done much better than Claude code. Claude code assumes a lot of things and often ends up doing a lot more making the code very complex and also me having to redo it later with cursor. With codex I have not seen this issue.

I also feel that codex cli as a cli tool is much better mainly due to its OSS nature where I can choose different model. Claude really missed this big time IMHO.

Can’t wait to try this!

Codex and codex cli are the best from what I have tested so far. Codex is really neat as I can do it from ChatGPT app.

The blog post lacks lots of details and sounds more of a marketing piece and “Try this!”. They did not release the evals, a very basic architecture flow which is not novel nor any real world benchmarks that says how it worked expect some vague statements. Must have been generated by Gemini

It says "Rolling out to users on the ChatGPT Pro Plan today" So it ll happen throughout the day

Can you give more detail on this? Or this is a vibe comment? Who do you consider as “best”?

I’ve been noticing this a lot too. Dunk on companies and products and blindly glorify other companies and product (emotional rather than objective)

Codex with o3 worked much better for my projects than Claude code. Plus it’s open source so I can switch models easily.

Its funny to see benchmarks where they omit the top performing models like O3 (Which is the best model in many benchmarks currently) and Gemini Pro/Claude 3.7.

Agreed. O3 is the best model out there for the tasks Ive tried and coding is a fair chunk of it. Claude 3.7 and Gemini 2.5 pro seems to hallucinate more

This is pretty neat! I was able to use it for few use cases where it got it right the first time. The ability to use a screenshot to create an application is nice for rapid prototyping. And good to see them open sourcing it unlike claude.

As much as I want to geek out and run the things locally, if I have the money I just want to use a SaaS. I want to spend time creating new applications and not toy around with setup, infrastructure etc. I’d gladly pay ChatGPT even more if they keep up with features and they seem to have done that quite well since deepseek (new models often, best image gen hands down, very fast inference compared to 6 months back and even small things like memory).

I sometimes feel guilty though. With all this power, I’m just bounded by lack of ideas and execution.

I may be cynical but Zuck saw this happening and entirely shifted to appease current administration. Even having UFC CEO on board. No way they will breakup META.

Apple compares against its own products most of the times.

That website is a cancer. There is 5% content in the screen and rest is all banner ads.

You can just prompt ChatGPT 4o saying only get information from web