When is 4.1 greater than 4.5? When it’s OpenAI’s newest model.

I get why they would want to keep the developer API models static (it's pretty much necessity for usage) and why that's a bad idea for chatGPT (users don't care, want better outputs). Though with this clarification GPT-5 (unification model for chatGPT) becomes really important, because very soon nobody can make sense of the naming where two same names mean different things in the API and chatGPT.

Btw., any information whether 4.5 is a dead branch or it got shifted to "teacher" model for GPT-4.1 and newer? If I am not mistaken distillation from teacher models into new (ideally simpler) model was how R1 got created.
 
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David Mayer

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Call me when you add a at least two of orders of magnitude to that number. Sure these tools can do some interesting and useful things that assist humans. But for knowledge intensive workloads (the kinds of tasks these tools would be most useful for) 3k pages of knowledge is next to nothing.
 
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Gosh, it almost gives me the impression there’s no plan and no strategy and they’re just making it up as they go along because they honestly expected to be insolvent by now

or something
or bought by someone with enough money that Altman wouldn't need to go to work anymore. alas.
 
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Gosh, it almost gives me the impression there’s no plan and no strategy and they’re just making it up as they go along because they honestly expected to be insolvent by now

or something
The trickiest thing about riding the tiger isn't mounting it. It's the dismount without getting eaten.

Sometimes it's safer to keep riding and hope the tiger dies first, or that by the time you want to dismount, you can run faster than it can.
 
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