OpenAI releases GPT-4.5 with ridiculous prices for a mediocre model
OpenAI has nothing. There are no new tech breakthroughs and the organization is still hemorrhaging cash by the billions. Something they could brand “GPT-5” was due mid-2024. How to placate the inve…
The bubble is bursting, i hope Nvidia implodes in a never before seen spectacular fashion.
Investors poured completely insane amounts of money into thd endless money pit that is ClosedAI. then they realize betting everything on one horse was really stupid, since they have zero competitve advantage.
now they try to get as much loot off the sinking ship as possible lmao
they'll probably exit scam soon
it's been an ongoing exit scam
OpenAI buys services from a pile of Altman's other portfolio companies
OpenAI buys services from a pile of Altman’s other portfolio companies
which reminds me of one of my actual favourite parts of the bayfuckers playacting building companies: how absolutely self-cycling a lot of the funding ends up being. shartups burning fucking piles of money on other, also-VC-funded, shartups. totally normal and healthy way for money to flow.
Sam Altman is talking about bringing online "tens of thousands" and then "Hundreds of thousands" of GPUs. 10,000 GPUs costs them $113 million a year, 100k $1.13bn, so this is Sam Altman committing to billions of dollars of compute for an expensive model that lacks any real new use cases. Suicide.
Also, $1.30 per hour per GPU is the Microsoft discount rate for OpenAI. Safe to assume there are other costs but raw compute for GPT 4.5 is massive and committing such resources at this time is truly fatalistic, and suggests Altman has no other cards to play
in the past I have worked in the product cycle at a silicon valley company a little bit and I just can't imagine anyone I met ever getting to the next step being "tell the customers the new product is marginally better at 15-30x the current price" and then actually doing that instead of cancelling releases, fire-drill meetings all week to change paths as soon as possible, etc. unless they already did that?
"bonkers" is right.
What's amazing is how long it's been at an insane level of hype and there isn't a single product that's very popular.
There's niche products, there's products that a lot of people use sometimes or that they don't mind but there's nothing in existence that a lot of people care about. Much less one a lot of people pay for.
The largest voice about the whole thing is how terrible it is. It's just bonkers.
Gromit facepalming (facepawing?) could be the techtakes mascot.
Former OpenAI researcher Andrej Karpathy wrote on X that GPT-4.5 is better than GPT-4o but in ways that are subtle and difficult to express. "Everything is a little bit better and it's awesome," he wrote, "but also not exactly in ways that are trivial to point to."
plebeian, you don't understand, you're sniffing our farts wrong
And GPT-4.5 is terrible for coding, relatively speaking, with an October 2023 knowledge cutoff that may leave out knowledge about updates to development frameworks.
This is in no way specific to GPT4.5 but remains a weirdly undermentioned albatross about the neck of the entire LLM code-guessing field, probably because the less you know about what you told it to generate the likelier you are to think it's doing a good job, and the enthusiastically satisfied customer reviews in social media that I've interacted with certainly seemed to skew toward less-you-know types.
Even when the up-to-date version release happened before the cut-off point you are probably out of luck, since the newer version is likely way underrepresented in the training data compared to the previous versions that people may have been using for years by that point.
I love openai model names. 3.5 wasn't enough so you need turbo but turbo is is nothing compared to 4.0 but you can mini version for free and now it's just 4.5. I still use 3.5 turbo api
Ed Zitron's podcast this week was discussing this very thing. The bubble is going to break eventually.
Been using deepseek R1 a lot during February and it's been consistently better at giving me what I want on the first go than any of the other models.
OpenAI is stuffed.
