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I know the motivation was probably something more prosaic like "c'mon geeks we have 3 more days of releases to fill, what do you have for us" but in hindsight announcing o3 now looks quite altruistic. It gives rival labs and short-timeline safety advocates weeks to months of extra warning that inference-time scaling works big-time, and i…
I know the motivation was probably something more prosaic like "c'mon geeks we have 3 more days of releases to fill, what do you have for us" but in hindsight announcing o3 now looks quite altruistic. It gives rival labs and short-timeline safety advocates weeks to months of extra warning that inference-time scaling works big-time, and it similarly moves up the "feel the AGI" timeline for non-technical decision-makers. As much hype as it's getting now, I presume it would have been going to get* even more if they'd waited to announce it until it was available, like they did for o1. So it sure feels like it's sacrificing OpenAI's near-term benefit for more overall AI awareness.
*Couldn't pass up the chance to use the... past future subjunctive?... tense.
Maybe. I see what you're saying. On the flip side, it probably keeps some customers with OpenAI for the next X months rather than going to other model companies.