GPT-4.5
also referred to as: gpt 4.5
4 statements across 4 episodes · 1 bullish · 3 bearish · 4 people on the record · first statement Mar 23, 2025 by Shawn Wang · said 24 times in 13 episodes since 2023 · across every show →
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brought up most by Shawn Wang (4), Nathan Lambert (2), Stephanie Palazzolo (1), Noam Brown (1), Michelle Pokrass (1), Michael Royzen (1), Ben Hillock (1), Ari Morcos (1)
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2026 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
2025 20 mentions in 9 episodes 2 per episode
- GPT 4.1: The New OpenAI Workhorse
- The RLVR Revolution — with Nathan Lambert (AI2, Interconnects.ai)
- Scaling Test Time Compute to Multi-Agent Civilizations — Noam Brown, OpenAI
- Better Data is All You Need — Ari Morcos, Datology
- Greg Brockman on OpenAI's Road to AGI
- The AI Agenda: GPT5 leaks and the business of AI News — Steph Palazzolo, The Information
- The Magic of LLM Distillation — Rishabh Agarwal, Google DeepMind
- OpenAI o1 isn’t a chat model (and that’s the point)
- 1 more episode that year, every mention in 2025 →
2024 1 mention in 1 episode
2023 1 mention in 1 episode
Everything said about GPT-4.5, oldest first
Mar 23, 2025 negative
Swyx: Frontier Models Exist Primarily to Distill Smaller, Usable Models
“Even GPT 4.5 is too expensive. Normally it's really gonna use it in, in any reasonable quantity. Like, you know, Claude 3.5 Opus, like if it does exist, still not like, you know, the thing that we actually use is Sonnet, right? So like, it's almost like a depl…”
Apr 15, 2025 positive
OpenAI is working to inject GPT-4.5's humor and nuance into future models
“We're working on incorporating kind of those improvements into the models more generally. People loved about 4.5 is like the humor, the green text, the nuance. So we've heard that feedback and I know, yeah, there's lots of folks working on that and trying to b…”
Jun 19, 2025 negative
Noam Brown: GPT-4.5 makes Tic-Tac-Toe mistakes without System 2 reasoning
“With Tic-Tac-Toe, we see that, like, GPD-Four .5 falls over. You know, it plays decently well. I shouldn't say it falls over. It does reasonably well. You can draw the board. It can make legal moves, but it will make mistakes sometimes, and if you really need …”
Aug 29, 2025 bearish
Morcos: GPT-4.5 and Llama 4 show limits of naive mega-model scaling
“And I think that's what we've seen to some extent with the failure of the mega models, right? With 4.5 and Lama four and others. I think that there is a challenge of just continuing to do that naively and you have to figure out how to break it.”