GPT-4.5: A Pricey Upgrade or a ‘Nothingburger’?
AI just got an update… but is GPT-4.5 more evolution than revolution? OpenAI’s latest model is bigger, costlier, and ‘a little bit better,’ but not where it really matters.
With no major reasoning upgrades and a hefty price tag, even early adopters are asking: What’s the point?
GPT-4.5 boasts 10x more pretraining compute than GPT-4, promising better EQ-driven tasks like creativity, humor, and nuanced understanding. Yet, it fails to advance in reasoning-heavy domains like coding and math, leaving industry experts scratching their heads.
Aaron Levie praises its ability to extract metadata from enterprise content, but others—like Gary Marcus, call it a “nothingburger.” Meanwhile, OpenAI’s pricing strategy raises eyebrows.
Is GPT-4.5 a necessary stepping stone or just OpenAI keeping the spotlight? If AI progress now comes in invisible increments, what should businesses prioritize: incremental improvements or disruptive breakthroughs?
Read the full article on VentureBeat.
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