OpenAI's Noam Brown has only ~3 months of future model access internally — dramatic capability gap with public.

OpenAI's Noam Brown has only ~3 months of future model access internally — dramatic capability gap with public. | Well, and even today, you know, if you talk to Noam Brown over at OpenAI, you know, he's working on the next generation internally, but it's only like three months in the future that, you know, he has access to. But 3 months in the future in the era of self-improvement is like you know massively different intelligence level.

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Well, and even today, you know, if you talk to Noam Brown over at OpenAI, you know, he's working on the next generation internally, but it's only like three months in the future that, you know, he has access to. But 3 months in the future in the era of self-improvement is like you know massively different intelligence level.

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