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despite accusations that OpenAI did something fishy to get the 80% price drop...

June 12, 2025 View original thread

despite accusations that OpenAI did something fishy to get the 80% price drop, it appears they’re serious when they said nothing changed

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After the o3 price reduction, we retested the 03-2025-04-16 model on ARC-AGI to determine whether its performance had changed.
We compared the retest results with the original results and observed no difference in performance.

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This indicates that there is no evidence of a distilled or altered model being served after the

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Occam’s Razor wins every time bsky.app/profile/nato...

Nathan Lambert @natolambert.bsky.social

occam's razor explanation of OpenAI dropping o3 price by 80% was they were sitting on a fat margin and wanted to test out demand. They changed nothing w model, upgraded their inference code a bit, and made less profit. No nonsense at all they don't have time for that.

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