It all feels like an attempt to prevent replication to further tank the market. Not necessarily the technical details, but the reporting thereo, which was spammed all over Reddit and HN
This whole episode is weird. I can’t tell how much of the popular reporting is misinformed and how much has been disinformed. R1 (and sorta V3) are clearly progress, but are definitely not step-function improvements to prior SOTAs.
They are definitely step function improvements in regard to inferrance cost of the same level of reasoning intelligence.
Only because OpenAI overpriced o1, like they did with GPT-4.