Imagine if Mira Murati and John Schulman actually know what they're doing?
Given the time to market and the date in which these labs were founded, I find it far more likely that the lag was representative of them establishing proper internal (RL etc) tooling.
Would this have been SOTA at the beginning of the year? Yes. Where you happy with SOTA in january? Why can't we then be happy with this? I mean, perhaps Inkling 3 or 4 Small will crush Opus 5.5 and then we will ask if it matters since it's not Opus 7... Everyone can't be SOTA. With these open weight models, I simply ask. Is it useable, is it useful? Can I get very useful work out of it at a reasonable cost to other open models and cloud models? If the answer is yes, then it's a go.
Seems to be pretty close to SOTA on design. I’m excited to try it out with my agentic design system.