The last few days have seen two narratives emerge. One, derived from yesterday’s OpenAI leak in TheInformation, that GPT-5/Orion is a disappointment, and less of a leap than GPT-3 to GPT-4. The second comes from a series of 4 clips (shown in this video) from Sam Altman, regarding the ‘clear path’ to AGI. Let’s go beyond the headlines (and through papers like Frontier Math) to get closer to the ground truth…

Plus Universal-2, Sora comments, Claude 3.5 Haiku SimpleBench update, and a great new AI video.

Assembly AI Speech to Text: https://www.assemblyai.com/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=influencer&utm_campaign=ai_explained

00:39 – Bear Case, TheInformation Leak

04:01 – Bull Case, Sam Altman

06:20 – FrontierMath

11:29 – o1 Paradigm

13:11 – Text to Video Greatness and Universal-2

TheInformation Leak: https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-shifts-strategy-as-rate-of-gpt-ai-improvements-slows?rc=sy0ihq

Noam Brown Replies: https://x.com/polynoamial/status/1855453104394637444

Sam Altman Y-Combinator Interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXCBz_8hM9w&t=1556s

Altman Reply: https://x.com/sama/status/1855100359511097828

https://simple-bench.com/

FrontierMath Paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2411.04872

Frontier Math Blog Post: https://epochai.org/frontiermath

Leak: ‘GPT-5 exhibits diminishing returns’, Sam Altman: ‘lol’

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