2024-08-28: Strawberry Summer
OpenAI's new AI model, Strawberry, reportedly solves complex math problems and surpasses GPT-5 in reasoning ability, raising the bar for AI capabilities.
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Here’s today at a glance:
Where is OpenAI now?
My overall sense of where OpenAI is has not changed since the board struggle last year: Noam Brown (the guy who solved poker and Diplomacy) and a bunch of folks working on reasoning came up with a fundamental breakthrough, they used inference time compute to get a small model to reason through grade school math problems, adding this to the existing scaling curve means a step up in functionality that cannot be accurately captured by existing benchmarks.
The board struggle last year showed that the foundation of the company was weak, and what followed was spring cleaning. Successively:
Jan Leike, Ilya Sutskever and most of the superalignment team parted with the company
John Schulman, who let post-training also quits to Anthropic
Former NSA Director Paul Nakasone joins the board
The rest of the b…
