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Re: OpenAI o3-pro

#2

Post by mmsc »

I understand that things are moving fast and all, but surely the.. 8? models which are currently available is a bit .. overwhelming for users that just want to get answers to their questions of life? What's the end goal with having so many models available?

Re: OpenAI o3-pro

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Post by manmal »

The benchmarks don’t look _that_ much better than o3. Does that mean Pro models are just incrementally better than base models, or are we approaching the higher end of a sigmoid function, with performance gains leveling off?

Re: OpenAI o3-pro

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Post by Osyris »

mmsc wrote: post #2

I understand that things are moving fast and all, but surely the.. 8? models which are currently available is a bit .. overwhelming for users that just want to get answers to their questions of life? What's the end goal with having so many models available?

This is a much more expensive model to run and is only available to users who pay the most. I don't see an issue.

However, the "plus" plan absolutely could use some trimming.

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Post by bachittle »

mmsc wrote: post #2

I understand that things are moving fast and all, but surely the.. 8? models which are currently available is a bit .. overwhelming for users that just want to get answers to their questions of life? What's the end goal with having so many models available?

free users don't have this model selector, and probably don't care which model they get so 4o is good enough. paid users at 20$/month get more models which are better, like o3. paid users at 200$/month get the best models that are also costing OpenAI the most money, like o3-pro. I think they plan to unify them with GPT-5.

Re: OpenAI o3-pro

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Post by bachittle »

manmal wrote: post #3

The benchmarks don’t look _that_ much better than o3. Does that mean Pro models are just incrementally better than base models, or are we approaching the higher end of a sigmoid function, with performance gains leveling off?

it's the same model as o3, just with thinking tokens turned up to the max.

Re: OpenAI o3-pro

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Post by blurbleblurble »

mmsc wrote: post #2

I understand that things are moving fast and all, but surely the.. 8? models which are currently available is a bit .. overwhelming for users that just want to get answers to their questions of life? What's the end goal with having so many models available?

Overwhelming yet pretty underwhelming
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