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Assertion Open · timeframe Jun 2027
Brown: Modern AI models can reason for weeks before plateauing
“What we're seeing today with the modern models is that 5.5 and other models can think for, if you scaffold them reasonably well, can think for weeks even before having performance plateau on some of these benchmarks.”
Noam Brown Jun 26, 2026 ▶ 3:34 Really Big Test-Time Compute in AI Changes Benchmarks, Safety and Research with OpenAI's Noam Brown
Assertion Open · timeframe Aug 2028
Patel: OpenAI o1 and o3 share basic architecture with GPT-4o
“For a long time, OpenAI was charging more per token for the reasoning model, right, O-one and O-three than they were for GPT-Four-O, even though the architecture is, like, basically the same. It's just the weights are different.”
Dylan Patel Aug 14, 2025 ▶ 9:54 No Priors Ep. 127 | With SemiAnalysis Founder and CEO Dylan Patel
Assertion Not yet assessed · timeframe Apr 2023
Training OpenAI base models on code improved chain-of-thought reasoning
“So they had wanted to see what introducing code into their into their base models would do. I think it had positive effects on chain of thought reasoning.”
Alex Graveley Apr 25, 2023 ▶ 15:28 No Priors Ep. 10 | With Copilot's Chief Architect and founder of Minion.AI Alex Graveley
Assertion Not yet assessed · timeframe Aug 2023
Khan: Bill Gates challenged OpenAI to build an AI passing AP Biology
“It turns out that Bill Gates, when he saw GPT-III, he's like, oh, this is cool. But we all know GPT-III really didn't have a good handle on knowledge, and he told the OpenAI team, he's like, I'll be impressed if this could pass the AP Biology exam. He literall…”
Sal Khan Aug 17, 2023 ▶ 34:37 No Priors Ep. 28 | With Khan Academy’s Creator Sal Khan
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