o3 isn’t one of the biggest developments in AI for 2+ years because it beats a particular benchmark. It is so because it demonstrates a reusable technique through which almost any benchmark could fall, and at short notice. I’ll cover all the highlights, benchmarks broken, and what comes next. Plus, the costs OpenAI didn’t want us to know, Genesis, ARC-AGI 2, Gemini-Thinking, and much more. 

FrontierMath: https://epoch.ai/frontiermath

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2411.04872

Chollet Statement:https://arcprize.org/blog/oai-o3-pub-breakthrough

MLC Paper: 

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/new-training-method-helps-ai-generalize-like-people-do/?utm_campaign=socialflow&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social

AlphaCode 2: https://storage.googleapis.com/deepmind-media/AlphaCode2/AlphaCode2_Tech_Report.pdf

Human Performance on ARC-AGI: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2409.01374v1

Wei Tweet ‘3 months’:https://x.com/_jasonwei/status/1870184982007644614

Deliberative Alignment Paper: https://openai.com/index/deliberative-alignment/

Brown Safety Tweet: https://x.com/polynoamial/status/1870196476908834893

Swe-Bench Verified: https://openai.com/index/introducing-swe-bench-verified/

Amodei Prediction: https://x.com/OfirPress/status/1858567863788769518

David Dohan: 16 hours https://x.com/dmdohan/status/1870171404093796638

OpenAI Personal Writing: https://openai.com/index/learning-to-reason-with-llms/

https://simple-bench.com/

John Hallman Tweet: https://x.com/johnohallman/status/1870233375681945725

00:00 - Introduction

01:19 - What is o3?

03:18 - FrontierMath

05:15 - o4, o5

06:03 - GPQA

06:24 - Coding, Codeforces + SWE-verified, AlphaCode 2

08:13 - 1st Caveat

09:03 - Compositionality?

10:16 - SimpleBench?

13:11 - ARC-AGI, Chollet