Interesting. What confuses me a bit: What made other companies be able to copy OpenAI’s work after it was released, conditional on your story being true? As far as I know, OpenAI didn’t actually explain their methods developing o1, so what exactly did other companies learn from the release which they didn’t learn from the rumors that OpenAI is developing something like this?
Is the conclusion basically that Jesse Hoogland has been right that just the few bits that OpenAI did leak already constrained the space of possibilities enough for others to copy the work? Quote from his post:
For all its secrecy, OpenAI has leaked enough bits to tightly constrain the space of possibilities.
The few bits they leaked in the release helped a bunch. Note that these bits were substantially leaked via people being able to use the model rather than necessarily via the blog post.
Other companies weren’t that motivated to try to copy OpenAI’s work until it was released as they we’re sure how important it was or how good the results were.
Interesting.
What confuses me a bit: What made other companies be able to copy OpenAI’s work after it was released, conditional on your story being true? As far as I know, OpenAI didn’t actually explain their methods developing o1, so what exactly did other companies learn from the release which they didn’t learn from the rumors that OpenAI is developing something like this?
Is the conclusion basically that Jesse Hoogland has been right that just the few bits that OpenAI did leak already constrained the space of possibilities enough for others to copy the work? Quote from his post:
I think:
The few bits they leaked in the release helped a bunch. Note that these bits were substantially leaked via people being able to use the model rather than necessarily via the blog post.
Other companies weren’t that motivated to try to copy OpenAI’s work until it was released as they we’re sure how important it was or how good the results were.