Monologue: OpenAI Is Getting Desperate
Better Offline
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4.6 • 687 Ratings
🗓️ 7 March 2025
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
In this week's monologue, Ed Zitron goes through the underwhelming release of OpenAI's GPT-4.5 - and how OpenAI's rumored new pricing structure suggests this company is in trouble.
Here's the article cited from The Information: https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-plots-charging-20-000-a-month-for-phd-level-agents?rc=kz8jh3
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| 0:43.8 | Hello, you. It's your better offline monologue, and I'm your host, Ed Zittron. |
| 0:49.3 | Better offline. |
| 0:55.3 | Now next week, I'm going to have a two-part of the digs into Microsoft status data center pull back an open AI shaking new funding situation, but this week's monologue focuses on OpenAI's new model, |
| 1:00.8 | GPT4.5. You may be wondering what it does differently to GPT4O or Claude Sonnet 3.7 or any number of |
| 1:08.6 | other large language models, and if I'm honest, I have absolutely no |
| 1:12.0 | idea. Thankfully, neither does Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, who said, and I quote, the GPT 4.5 was |
| 1:18.8 | the first model that feels like talking to a thoughtful person to him, which makes me wonder what the |
| 1:26.4 | other models have been like. |
| 1:28.6 | So I went back and look. |
| 1:30.5 | So compare this to the launch of GPD40, which Altman called OpenAI's best model ever, |
| 1:36.0 | saying that it was fast, smart, natively multimodal, referring to the ability to accept text |
| 1:41.3 | as well as audio and video, and photos as well, and available to all |
| 1:45.6 | chat GPT users, including on their free plan, adding that it was a very good model, especially at coding. |
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