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Opinion
Doshi: Image Generative AI Is Stuck in a 'GPT-2 Moment'
“So I think that we continue to feel like graphics and these foundation models for anything really related to pixels, but also definitely images continues to be very under invested. It feels a little like graphics is in like this GPT two moment, right? Like eve…”
Suhail Doshi Jan 2, 2024 ▶ 18:07 The AI-First Graphics Editor - with Suhail Doshi of Playground AI
Assertion Partly supported
Brockman: Arc Institute trained 40B DNA model on 13T base pairs
“I'd say that maybe the neural net we produced, you know, it's a 40 B neural net trained on, you know, like 13 trillion base pairs or something like that. The results to be felt like GPT one, maybe starting to be GPT two level, right? It's like accessible or, a…”
Greg Brockman Aug 15, 2025 ▶ 17:53 Greg Brockman on OpenAI's Road to AGI
Assertion Supported
Karpathy: llm.c was 20% faster and used 30% less memory than PyTorch
“At the time of that post, we were using, in LL and that's in 30% less memory, and we were 20% faster in training, just the truth.”
Andrej Karpathy Sep 21, 2024 ▶ 19:10 llm.c's Origin and the Future of LLM Compilers - Andrej Karpathy at CUDA MODE
Assertion Supported
Karpathy: llm.c trains GPT-2 on one H100 node in 24 hours for $600
“You can train it on a single node of H-one-hundreds in about 24 hours, and that costs roughly 600 dollars.”
Andrej Karpathy Sep 21, 2024 ▶ 18:02 llm.c's Origin and the Future of LLM Compilers - Andrej Karpathy at CUDA MODE
Opinion
Nair: AI robotics is currently in its 'GPT-1 to GPT-2' era
“Yeah, like I would say that robotics is in kind of like the GPT-one to GPT-two area right now.”
Ashvin Nair Dec 30, 2025 ▶ 4:54 [State of RL/Reasoning] IMO/IOI Gold, OpenAI o3/GPT-5, and Cursor Composer — Ashvin Nair, Cursor
What-if
Noam Brown: Reasoning paradigms would have failed on GPT-2
“If you try to do the reasoning paradigm on top of GPT-II, I don't think it would have gotten you almost anything.”
Noam Brown Jun 19, 2025 ▶ 9:35 Scaling Test Time Compute to Multi-Agent Civilizations — Noam Brown, OpenAI
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Stuhlmüller: Elicit continues to use T5-based models
“We do also use, like, T-Five-based models, even, even now but started, yeah, started with GPT-II.”
Andreas Stuhlmüller Apr 11, 2024 ▶ 13:18 Supervise the Process of AI Research — with Jungwon Byun and Andreas Stuhlmüller of Elicit
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