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Bob McGrew@bobmcgrewai

That o1 is better than GPT-4.5 on most problems tells us that pre-training isn't the optimal place to spend compute in 2025. There's a lot of low-hanging fruit in reasoning still. But pre-training isn't dead, it's just waiting for reasoning to catch up to log-linear returns.

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