Can someone explain why people care about that?

Both as in "Why is there a stealth launch like that in the first place?" but also "Why does it matter? Is it very good in something?"

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Philpax 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Stealth launch: builds hype, allows them to collect user preference data and see where the model fails. Why people care: it's free, decent, and people love a good mystery.

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hypfer 4 hours ago | parent [-]

Aaah, free inference. Yeah that checks out and fits very well with weird Internet hype.

Okay, fair enough. Thanks!

	▲	handfuloflight an hour ago \| parent [-]
		It's a good model ser.

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chermi 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I think there was some loud speculation is was Google. It's cool people can pretty definitively show it's not. But also maybe Google is being crazy sneaky and faking it! (Joking)

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tcdent 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I think the stranger thing is that people spend tens of hours doing analysis like this to hit an inevitably-expiring hype cycle that will give us a definitive answer shortly.

	▲	chermi 3 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Don't you think the forensics is fun?! This is exactly the sort of thing i would've expected hn to be broadly interesting to hn. It's a complicated technology and people are poking it and learning things
	▲	cgorlla 3 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		It's fun! Also it's an interesting commentary on where the AI industry is as a whole.

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cgorlla 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

It's decent. How good depends on compute needs.