The irony about this latest OpenAI controversy just dawned on me. They just spent $22.5 million to win $1 million and apparently they stole someone else’s work to do it. This is exactly their entire business model, and the business model for the industry as well!
Tweet below says they blew $15 million of compute but numerous other sources peg the number at $22.5 million to win the $1 million (and again they apparently had to steal IP to do it):
Here is where we are on the stupidity of wasteful compute spending.
As a scientist, I’ll tell you right now that nothing OpenAi did was impressive. In science this is called Brute Compute. OpenAI just blew $15 million on computer power and Ai did nothing, but act as the LLM to… pic.twitter.com/YAfN73OrMZ
On a related note, regarding the nonsense being spewed about OpenAI’s latest model Astra being AGI, it is far from that. Not only is it far from that, they seem to have spent hundreds of billions to create a model that is only 3.6% better on one benchmark (and it got there after eliminating some CoT controls so the compares are not even apples-apples), and it is no better based on other benchmarks and reported user experience.
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