GPT-4o

includes GPT 4o Search Preview, GPT 4o Search

19 statements across 15 episodes · 13 bullish · 2 bearish · 14 people on the record · first statement Jul 23, 2024 by Thomas Scialom · said 150 times in 58 episodes since 2024 · across every show →

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2024 67 mentions in 22 episodes 3 per episode

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Everything said about GPT-4o, oldest first

Jul 23, 2024 positive
Assertion Supported
Scialom: Llama 3 405B is the best open-source model ever released
“At a high level, it's the best open source model ever. It's Better than GPT-IV. I mean, what version? But, by far, compared to the version originally released even now, I think there's maybe the last cloud Sonya FF-V and GPT-IV-Zero that are performing it.”
Thomas Scialom Jul 23, 2024 ▶ 37:43 Training Llama 2, 3 & 4: The Path to Open Source AGI — with Thomas Scialom of Meta AI
Sep 17, 2024 neutral
Assertion Supported
Structured response format is limited to GPT-4o and GPT-4o mini
“Actually, the new response format is only available on two models. It's Foro Mini and the new Foro. So the old Foro doesn't have the new response format. However, for function calling, we were able to enable it for all models that support function calling, and…”
Michelle Pokrass Sep 17, 2024 ▶ 30:23 Building AGI with OpenAI's Structured Outputs API
Sep 20, 2024 positive
Assertion Supported
Swix: Multi-sampling GPT-4o mini before GPT-4o judging yields net savings
“If I call a GP for a mini 10 times and I do a number of drafts or summaries, and then I have four, oh, judge the summaries that actually is net savings and like a good enough savings then running four, oh, on everything, which given the hundreds and thousands …”
Shawn Wang Sep 20, 2024 ▶ 44:23 The Ultimate Guide to Prompting - with Sander Schulhoff from LearnPrompting.org
Oct 13, 2024 bullish
Assertion Supported
Molmo 72B Beats Proprietary Models on Academic Benchmarks
“Academic benchmarks wise, Their big one is the best state-of-the-art everything, better than proprietary, but ELO-wise, it sits behind four-oh.”
Vibhu Sapra Oct 13, 2024 ▶ 45:42 [Paper Club] Molmo + Pixmo + Whisper 3 Turbo - with Vibhu Sapra, Nathan Lambert, Amgadoz
Nov 11, 2024 positive
Opinion
Polu: GPT-4 Turbo performs better than GPT-4o on function calling
“I personally don't have proof, but I know many people, and I'm probably part of them, to think that GPT-IV Turbo is still better than GPT-IV on function calling.”
Stanislas Polu Nov 11, 2024 ▶ 42:04 Agents @ Work: Dust.tt — with Stanislas Polu
Nov 15, 2024 bearish
Opinion
Crivello: OpenAI's GPT-4o Is Overhyped and Poor for Agents
“I think four O is overhyped. Frankly, we don't use four O. I don't think it's good for agentic behavior.”
Florent Crivello Nov 15, 2024 ▶ 32:07 Agents @ Work: Lindy.ai (with live demo!)
Nov 29, 2024 positive
What-if
Shreya Shankar: GPT-4o Mini reduces DocETL optimization cost by 90%
“The reason it was a hundred dollars, if I ran the optimizer with GPT-Foro mini as the LLMs, it would be 10 dollars. But we use GPT four. Oh, just because I think we did this at a time where many hadn't come out yet.”
Shreya Shankar Nov 29, 2024 ▶ 45:58 [Paper Club] DocETL: Agentic Query Rewriting + Eval for Complex Document Processing w Shreya Shankar
Jan 24, 2025 positive
Assertion Supported
Cosine's fine-tuned GPT-4o scored higher on SWE-bench than OpenAI's original o1
“And then we also on this podcast, we interviewed Cosign that actually fine tune four O to, on three bench, sorry to achieve data on three bench. And that score was actually higher than O one when it came out.”
Shawn Wang Jan 24, 2025 ▶ 19:35 The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Reasoning Distillation: using DeepSeek R1 to beat OpenAI o1
Feb 1, 2025
Disclosure
Karina Nguyen: OpenAI Retrained GPT-4o to Handle Canvas Edge Cases
“The only way to like fix some of the edge cases is actually through post training. So we actually, what we did was actually retrain the entire full O plus our canvas stuff.”
Karina Nguyen Feb 1, 2025 ▶ 30:17 The Agent Reasoning Interface: Claude, ChatGPT Canvas, Tasks, Operator — with Karina Nguyen, OpenAI
Feb 1, 2025 negative
Opinion
Nguyen: Original ChatGPT Canvas Beta Model Was More Creative Than GPT-4o Canvas
“I would say like the original better model that we released this canvas was actually much more creative than even right now when I use like for, oh, this canvas”
Karina Nguyen Feb 1, 2025 ▶ 35:05 The Agent Reasoning Interface: Claude, ChatGPT Canvas, Tasks, Operator — with Karina Nguyen, OpenAI
Feb 26, 2025
Disclosure
Raycast built its Ray 1 models by fine-tuning GPT-4o and mini
“And so we looked into all the various models we had and then we picked, at the moment, it's gbd-for-o and gbd-for-o-mini, Which we basically did a fine tune to really optimize for our use case, and then basically shipping that in the app as Ray one and Ray one…”
Thomas Paul Mann Feb 26, 2025 ▶ 8:15 Raycast: Your AI Automation Assistant
Feb 26, 2025 positive
Opinion
OpenAI models remain the industry best for chained function calling
“And so we find like the open AI models function calling wise for our use case. So for the best ones and like, yeah, basically verifying the others. We had a beta group and testing different models. So basically from all providers and yeah, find basically the b…”
Thomas Paul Mann Feb 26, 2025 ▶ 10:21 Raycast: Your AI Automation Assistant
Mar 11, 2025
Assertion Supported
Nikunj Handa: OpenAI distilled o-series models into GPT-4o search
“They use, like, synthetic data techniques. They've done, like, O-series model distillation to, like, make these four or fine tunes really good.”
Nikunj Handa Mar 11, 2025 ▶ 9:26 The new OpenAI Agents Platform: CUA, Web Search, Responses API, Agents SDK!!
Mar 11, 2025 positive
Assertion Partly supported
Alessio Fanelli: GPT-4o Search jumps to 90% accuracy on simple QA
“On simple QA, GPT four O is 30% accuracy. Four O search is 90%.”
Alessio Fanelli Mar 11, 2025 ▶ 8:12 The new OpenAI Agents Platform: CUA, Web Search, Responses API, Agents SDK!!
Mar 19, 2025 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
OpenAI's o3 outperforms GPT-4o on Convex evals by a small margin
“You know, oh, three does do better than four. Oh, I mean, we use brain trust for tracking all this quantitatively, but I can't remember off the top of my head, but it's not like a slam dunk.”
Sujay Jayakar Mar 19, 2025 ▶ 17:56 Fullstack-Bench: The Eval for Coding Agents — with Sujay Jayakar, Chief Scientist, Convex
Apr 15, 2025 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
GPT-4.1 Mini significantly outperforms 4o Mini, nearing original GPT-4o performance
“4.1 mini is actually quite significantly better than four o mini and not that far away from the old four o.”
Michelle Pokrass Apr 15, 2025 ▶ 32:15 GPT 4.1: The New OpenAI Workhorse
Apr 15, 2025 positive
Assertion Supported
GPT-4.1 reduces extraneous edit rate to 2%, down from GPT-4o's 9%
“And we found that from four O, which got nine percent, which is pretty crazy, nine percent of the time making an extraneous edit is a lot. 4.1 is at two percent, so it's a pretty big improvement.”
Michelle Pokrass Apr 15, 2025 ▶ 23:43 GPT 4.1: The New OpenAI Workhorse
Oct 30, 2025 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
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…”
Emily Glassberg Sands Oct 30, 2025 ▶ 1:03:47 The Agents Economy Backbone - with Emily Glassberg Sands, Head of Data & AI at Stripe
Apr 7, 2026 positive
Insight
Lopopolo: Reasoning models eliminate need for rigid state-machine scaffolding
“And this I think is like the fundamental difference between reasoning models and the four ones and four O's of the past where these models could not think. So you kind of had to put them in boxes with a predefined set of state transitions. Whereas here we have…”
Ryan Lopopolo Apr 7, 2026 ▶ 11:59 Extreme Harness Engineering: 1M LOC, 1B toks/day, 0% human code or review — Ryan Lopopolo, OpenAI
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