Sam Altman

it is (relatively) easy to copy something that you know works.

it is extremely hard to do something new, risky, and difficult when you don't know if it will work.

individual researchers rightly get a lot of glory for that when they do it! it's the coolest thing in the world.

it's also extremely hard to rally a big talented research team to charge a new hill in the fog together.

this is key to driving progress forward.

thanks to ilya, jakub, bob, mark, and many other exceptional research leaders who got us here.

i especially want to thanks @MillionInt who relentlessly leads the strawberry team--getting to this point was one of the best displays of leadership in openai history, with much more to come.

a lot of people were interested in how we made GPT-4.5 and what comes next.

we did a podcast with alex paino, dan selsam, and @atootoon who helped drive the project.

full episode coming soon, but here are some interesting clips: