o3

5 statements across 4 episodes · 4 bullish · 0 bearish · 4 people on the record · first statement Nov 14, 2024 by Jared Friedman · said 9 times in 5 episodes since 2025 · across every show →

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Nov 14, 2024 bullish
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Friedman: Sam Altman Says OpenAI o2 and o3 Are Not Far Behind
“Sam was just telling us that like O-two and O-three are not far behind.”
Jared Friedman Nov 14, 2024 ▶ 17:54 Why The Next AI Breakthroughs Will Be In Reasoning, Not Scaling · Y Combinator
May 30, 2025 positive
Opinion
Taggar: o3 follows rubrics rigidly while Gemini 2.5 Pro reasons flexibly
“Oh, three was very rigid, actually. Like it really sticks to the rubric. It's heavily penalizes for anything that doesn't fit like the rubric that you've given it. Whereas Gemini 2.5 pro was actually quite good at being flexible in that it would apply the rubr…”
Harj Taggar May 30, 2025 ▶ 27:53 State-Of-The-Art Prompting For AI Agents · Y Combinator
Jun 21, 2025 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Altman: AI models like o3 can act as junior employees executing multi-hour tasks
“But now you start to see things where you can like really give a task to Codex, for example or to deep research, and you have this thing go off and do a bunch of stuff and come back to you with like a proposal. It's like a very junior employee that can work on…”
Sam Altman Jun 21, 2025 ▶ 19:29 Sam Altman: The Future of OpenAI, ChatGPT's Origins, and Building AI Hardware · Y Combinator
Jun 21, 2025 bullish
Assertion Supported
Altman: OpenAI's o3 model cost dropped by 5x in one week
“And also, like last week, O-three cost five times as much as it did this week, and that's gonna keep going.”
Sam Altman Jun 21, 2025 ▶ 5:30 Sam Altman: The Future of OpenAI, ChatGPT's Origins, and Building AI Hardware · Y Combinator
Feb 6, 2026 neutral
Disclosure
French-Owen: OpenAI used reinforcement learning on o3 checkpoints for coding tasks
“Well, basically we kind of had like a checkpoint. For I think it was O three, like one of the reasoning models. And then we did a bunch of fine tuning on it and reinforcement learning where it's like, oh, you're given a bunch of questions to like solve these c…”
Calvin French-Owen Feb 6, 2026 ▶ 10:30 We're All Addicted To Claude Code · Y Combinator
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