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[–] ShakingMyHead@awful.systems 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Well, it's now yesterday's tomorrow and while there's an update I'm not seeing a Q* announcement.

[–] imadabouzu@awful.systems 4 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Q*

My understanding is that it was renamed or rebranded to Strawberry which itself nebulous marketting maybe it's the new larger model or maybe it's GPT-5 or maybe...

it's all smoke and mirrors. I think my point is, they made some cost optimizations and mostly moved around things that existed, and they'll keep doing that.

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 4 points 4 months ago

OH

I first saw this then later saw the "openai employees tweeted 🍓" and thought the latter was them being cheeky dipshits about the former. admittedly I didn't look deeper (because ugh)

but this is even more hilarious and dumb

[–] ShakingMyHead@awful.systems 3 points 4 months ago

I'm not seeing a Strawberry announcement either.