O3 Mini
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Sands: Switching to o3-mini saved Stripe $3M yearly on risk task
“Or we use, like GPT-IV-O, and it was, like, kind of a little bit expensive to justify the humans that it was replacing for a particular risk-related task, but then next thing we know, like, O-three mini is out, and it's, like, you know, three million dollars a…”
Brown: Reasoning effort dropdowns will disappear from chat interfaces
“I think in chat interfaces, it probably won't stick around. Like, I don't think we're always going to have the dropdown of like Oath for many and Oath for many high. That feels silly.”
Packer: Sleep-time compute offers Pareto improvements across Claude 3.7 and DeepSeek
“It's like pretty consistent across like both 3.7 deep seek, three mini, which all like the way you actually scale the x-axis here is fundamentally quite different in each case with 3.7 extended thinking mode. The parameter you provide to scale it is different …”
Hu: OpenAI reasoning models are catching up to Claude 3.5 Sonnet
“The thing about CodeGen, the big game in town that we saw, ah, six months ago was Clawed Sonnet. It's still actually a big contender. Most are still using it. But O-one, O-one Pro, and O-three meaning all these resilient models are starting to see it's almost …”
OpenAI likely reaches frontier capabilities via search, then distills into mini models
“The only way you reach the frontier with the full size models of O-one and O-three is with that stuff. And then you can distill to the minis, the O-one mini, O-three mini. So in my writeup, I said like, maybe this is the formula for O-one mini, O-three mini. T…”