these announcements from OpenAI no longer has that exciting impact because of the repeated lies and disappointments in actual real world usage.
my attention instead is focused entirely on open source models and its competitors which are already pulling ahead without the need for fancy announcements.
Lastly, I really despise Sam for trying to cash out his non-profit RSUs and Elon Musk will most certainly prevent that from happening. While I'm not a grok simp or pay for X, I can already see OpenAI losing relevance.
For example announcement from Deepmind vs Sam's expressionless interviews has different energy.
FWIW, they lost my belief in them with the "advanced voice" debacle: they seem to have announced it when they did merely to scoop Google, not because that was a reasonable time to announce it :/. It then took them forever to actually release it, and while I totally use it (a lot: I am not saying it is a categorical failure or anything), it isn't anywhere near as good as their demo made it out to be; the result is that I simply don't believe any of their demos or announcements now: I'll believe it when I see it and evaluate it on its merits only then... watching their videos or reading their press releases is probably a waste of time and energy.
Got it. I think my bias in this is that 4o is my go-to chat model, and chat models are basically all I use; if you're doing more advanced stuff than that, I've got no visibility, and am inclined to just believe everything people say.
my attention instead is focused entirely on open source models and its competitors which are already pulling ahead without the need for fancy announcements.
Lastly, I really despise Sam for trying to cash out his non-profit RSUs and Elon Musk will most certainly prevent that from happening. While I'm not a grok simp or pay for X, I can already see OpenAI losing relevance.
For example announcement from Deepmind vs Sam's expressionless interviews has different energy.