o3 and o4-mini - they’re great, but easy to over-hype

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Critical analysis of the two most powerful new models behind ChatGPT, o3 and o4-mini. Not just the system cards, benchmarks, and my own tests, but some you may not have seen before. Yes, they can whip up amazing front-end in a few seconds, but you always have to ask what is in their data. Either way, they prove the gains from RL are just beginning… https://weave-docs.wandb.ai/?utm_source=sponsorship&utm_medium=simple_bench&utm_campaign=ai_explained AI Insiders ($9!): https://www.patreon.com/AIExplained Chapters: 00:00 - o3 and o4-mini https://simple-bench.com/ Plus, Teams and Pro, plus token count: https://x.com/btibor91/status/1912568994512662679 System Card: https://openai.com/index/o3-o4-mini-system-card/ Release Notes: https://openai.com/index/introducing-o3-and-o4-mini/ https://deepmind.google/technologies/gemini/pro/ https://x.com/DeryaTR_/status/1912558350794961168 https://x.com/polynoamial/status/1912564068168450396 API Pricing:https://openai.com/api/pricing/ https://aider.chat/docs/leaderboards/ Non-hype Newsletter: https://signaltonoise.beehiiv.com/ Podcast: https://aiexplainedopodcast.buzzsprout.com/

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