Tuesday, November 12, 2024

"OpenAI reportedly developing new strategies to deal with AI improvement slowdown"

Following on yesterday's "Andreessen Horowitz Founders Notice A.I. Models Are Hitting a Ceiling".

From TechCrunch, November 9:

OpenAI’s next flagship model might not represent as big a leap forward as its predecessors, according to a new report in The Information.

Employees who tested the new model, code-named Orion, reportedly found that even though its performance exceeds OpenAI’s existing models, there was less improvement than they’d seen in the jump from GPT-3 to GPT-4. 

In other words, the rate of improvement seems to be slowing down. In fact, Orion might not be reliably better than previous models in some areas, such as coding....

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There was something notable about the performance of the companies most associated with AI tech yesterday yesterday:

NVDA $145.26  -2.37  -1.61%

META  $583.17  -6.17 -1.05%

MSFT  $418.01  -4.53 -1.07%

AMZN  $206.84 -1.34  -0.64%

AAPL   $224.23  -2.73 -1.20%

TSLA $350.00 +28.78 +8.96%

GOOG $181.97 +2.11 +1.17%  

I'm not sure what it means, if anything but it may pay to keep an eye on this stuff going into Nvidia's earnings on the 30th.