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Lightcap: AI model scaling laws have held predictably consistent for six years
“I think it's how consistently the scaling of models has worked. It still breaks my brain. Like I don't, maybe I've been, if we've, I've watched the same trend line for six years now, but I still find it incredible that you can make these models bigger and they…”
Lightcap: GPT-5 dynamically chooses whether to reason deeply per query
“GPT-V is it's our next generation flagship model. It does something really interesting, which is it actually combines into one model the ability to dynamically choose whether to think hard about a problem and reason about it to give you an answer or not.”
Lightcap: Base GPT-5 beats GPT-4o even without added reasoning time
“Even though if you don't allow any thinking time you still get a typically net better answer than you would for one of our non-thinking models like GPT-IV-I.”
Lightcap: GPT-5 beats previous models on SWE-bench and health benchmarks
“It scores better on things like Sweebench. It scores better on all the kind of academic evals that we put it through. This one in particular, we actually made a real emphasis to have it score better on certain health benchmarks. So It's better at medical reaso…”
Lightcap: GPT-5 bakes in tool use and longer-horizon reasoning
“So using tools, for example, is something that really thinks really important for overall intelligence, GPT two and three couldn't really do that as well. GPT-IV could do it in a more nascent way. And now GPT-V, you get that baked in with the benefit of these …”