o3

9 statements across 5 episodes · 7 bullish · 0 bearish · 5 people on the record · first statement Dec 31, 2024 by John Coogan · said 37 times in 15 episodes since 2024 · across every show →

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Dec 31, 2024 bullish
Opinion
Coogan: OpenAI o3 is underpriced and represents a major breakthrough
“Oh, three, I think is still underpriced. It's a big deal. Very, very big deal.”
John Coogan Dec 31, 2024 ▶ 1:07:33 Year of Tech in Review (ep25)
Dec 31, 2024 neutral
Assertion Supported
Coogan: OpenAI o3 high-compute configuration costs $2,000 per solve
“O-three is a reasoning model. The high version costs 2000 dollars per solve.”
John Coogan Dec 31, 2024 ▶ 1:03:39 Year of Tech in Review (ep25)
Jan 28, 2025 positive
Assertion Supported
Coogan: OpenAI's o3 High-Compute Mode Spent $3,000 to Solve a Benchmark Task
“Oh three, which isn't out yet, but is even more advanced in terms of reasoning. They have a high compute model. That spends almost 3000 dollars per task. And it just thinks for hours and hours and hours basically, and it was able to break arc that that AI, AGI…”
John Coogan Jan 28, 2025 ▶ 19:38 DeepSeek Update, Market Crash, Timeline in Turmoil, Is VC Cooked, Zero Cope Policy
Apr 25, 2025 neutral
Disclosure
Srinivas: Perplexity replaced a three-model agent pipeline with a single model
“Before O-three, the way we built, like, our agents, is there would be one model that gave, came up with a plan for the query, another model that would execute the plan by converting the plan to, like, Smaller queries, filtering links, calling searches, and the…”
Aravind Srinivas Apr 25, 2025 ▶ 27:35 Perplexity Founder Explains What Comes Next - Aravind Srinivas on TBPN April 23rd
Apr 25, 2025 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Srinivas: Most AI foundation model investment will go toward reinforcement learning
“I think RL is the place where most investments are gonna go to especially with models like O-three that are able to do tool calls pretty natively rather than being prompt engineered to do that”
Aravind Srinivas Apr 25, 2025 ▶ 27:35 Perplexity Founder Explains What Comes Next - Aravind Srinivas on TBPN April 23rd
Apr 26, 2025 positive
Insight
Brown: OpenAI's o3 qualifies as 10-minute AGI
“I'm happy to call O three, 10 minute AGI. And I think like framing AGI in terms of like length of time, it takes a human to do a task is like more reasonable than like a global framing. Like, sure. There's a bar of like drop and replace for a human that we are…”
Will Brown Apr 26, 2025 ▶ 8:34 Why Humor Is the True Test of AI Intelligence | Will Brown on TBPN
Apr 26, 2025 positive
Insight
Brown: OpenAI's o3 already achieves practical program synthesis
“Like when people say program synthesis, like we're already there, like O three is program synthesis, but the programs are like JSON and Python.”
Will Brown Apr 26, 2025 ▶ 9:37 Why Humor Is the True Test of AI Intelligence | Will Brown on TBPN
Aug 9, 2025 positive
Assertion Supported
Hays: An o3-level reasoning model was open-sourced within a year of o1
“So less than one year between O one announced, which was September of 20, 24. And we have an O three level model open sourced that's runnable on consumer hardware, wild progress.”
Jordi Hays Aug 9, 2025 ▶ 57:01 Weekly Recap: Apple Sitting on $100B, Disney Enters The AI Race, Marc Andreessen, All About GPT-5
Aug 9, 2025 positive
Assertion Contradicted
Sonwalkar: GPT-5 costs half as much as o3
“Also it's half the cost of O three. So it's much cheaper. So it helps you, helps your margins.”
Rahul Sonwalkar Aug 9, 2025 ▶ 1:58:07 Weekly Recap: Apple Sitting on $100B, Disney Enters The AI Race, Marc Andreessen, All About GPT-5
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