The last few days have seen two narratives emerge. One, derived from yesterday’s OpenAI leak in TheInformation, that GPT-5/Orion is a disappointment, and less of a leap than GPT-3 to GPT-4. The second comes from a series of 4 clips (shown in this video) from Sam Altman, regarding the ‘clear path’ to AGI. Let’s go beyond the headlines (and through papers like Frontier Math) to get closer to the ground truth…

Plus Universal-2, Sora comments, Claude 3.5 Haiku SimpleBench update, and a great new AI video.


Assembly AI Speech to Text: https://www.assemblyai.com/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=influencer&utm_campaign=ai_explained

00:39 – Bear Case, TheInformation Leak

04:01 – Bull Case, Sam Altman

06:20 – FrontierMath

11:29 – o1 Paradigm

13:11 – Text to Video Greatness and Universal-2

TheInformation Leak: https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-shifts-strategy-as-rate-of-gpt-ai-improvements-slows?rc=sy0ihq

Noam Brown Replies: https://x.com/polynoamial/status/1855453104394637444

Sam Altman Y-Combinator Interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXCBz_8hM9w&t=1556s

Altman Reply: https://x.com/sama/status/1855100359511097828

https://simple-bench.com/

FrontierMath Paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2411.04872

Frontier Math Blog Post: https://epochai.org/frontiermath

Tao: https://x.com/EpochAIResearch/status/1854996368814936250

MMLU Are We Done (cites me!): https://arxiv.org/pdf/2406.04127

Universal-2 https://www.assemblyai.com/research/universal-2

Noam Brown ‘We don’t know’: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gr_eYXdHFis

Anthropic Founder Response: https://x.com/jackclarkSF/status/1855485569998217231

Sora (Runway Comment): https://x.com/c_valenzuelab/status/1855026417354129455

Sora New Vid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_iETa2KDRuw

Darri3D Video: https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1gn0n3z/can_you/

The Google destroyer, the Perplexity crusher? Or just hype? ChatGPT with Search is here, and simultaneously Altman and co did an AMA on Reddit, covering GPT-5, Sora, SearchGPT and a lot more. Plus, the biggest news of them all: Simple Bench is out.

ChatGPT with Search: https://openai.com/index/introducing-chatgpt-search/

Altman AMA (ask me anything): https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1ggixzy/ama_with_openais_sam_altman_kevin_weil_srinivas/

https://x.com/sama/status/1852041075793522911

Perplexity Ads: https://www.cnbc.com/2024/08/22/perplexity-ai-plans-to-start-running-search-ads-in-fourth-quarter.html

Perplexity: https://www.perplexity.ai/

https://simple-bench.com/

A new state of the art LLM (at least for creative writing and basic reasoning) but what lies behind the numbers that were put out? Is it for real, and are AI agents about to grab your mouse and shake your cursor?

Plus, results on my own Simple Bench, and new tools from Runway (Act-One), HeyGen (Zoom Calls) and an updated NotebookLM. AI, without the hype.

Weights and Biases' Weave: https://wandb.me/ai_explained