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1. OpenAI’s Q* breakthrough may have precipitated Altman’s firing
Q* is seen by some as an improvement of this research published in May by OpenAI:
Q* is a new AI model able to solve certain math problems without having seen them in the training data.
AGI-nearing advance, some believe.
Some employees sent a letter to the board warning them about Q*.
Another potential explanation for Altman’s firing: OpenAI hired MIT professor Aleksander Madry around summertime to develop a responsible training policy. He reported to CTO Mira Murati, rather than Chief Scientist and previous board member Ilya Sutskever, which reportedly irritated Sutskever.
In other OpenAI news
Thrive-led $86B tender offer likely to happen: group to buy $1B in secondaries from employees, possibly anticipating a larger primary investment into OpenAI.
Potentially false rumor: Altman was fired from YC in 2019 for putting his own interests ahead of YC.
2. Inflection 2 announced, claims to be 2nd best LLM worldwide, just behind GPT-4
To be integrated into Pi after a “series of alignment steps.”
Trained on 5K NVIDIA H100 GPUs.
Our view: the top contenders to topple GPT-4 are Google Gemini, Claude 3, Inflection 3, and Grok 2
Prediction markets show 76% odds for Google Gemini, expected in Q1, to beat GPT-4. Of course, GPT-5 could come just a few weeks later:
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9M+ units sold.
New features: 1) Fully automated empty wash fill dock, 2) Upgraded obstacle avoidance, 3) 2x stronger suction, 4) total control via their app.
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