OpenAI May Have Really Screwed Up With GPT-4.5

OpenAI is trying to have it both ways: calling GPT-4.5 its "largest and most knowledgeable model yet" while managing expectations, cautioning that it's "not a frontier model." Why? Probably because the company knew what the public response was going to be: muted. From AI critic Gary Marcus' calling the LLM is a "nothingburger" to an anonymous expert who told Ars Technica that the model is a "lemon," it appears that the amply-hyped new model is seriously lacking in the type of juice that made the original ChatGPT, or its followup GPT-4, become enormous cultural and financial touchstones. Priced at a whopping $75 per million input tokens and $150 per million output tokens, GPT-4.5 is 30 times more expensive than GPT-4o, OpenAI's "reasoning" model — and beyond the sticker shock, it's apparently quite slow and has a focus on "emotional intelligence" instead of more traditionally analytic tasks. While haters will inevitably hate, and the hype around OpenAI's new models has been decreasin ... Read full article.