GM! It’s Brett again. Confession time: one of the worst things I did for my last company was getting caught up in the whole CEO performance act. Nearly tanked the whole operation.

Wrote down some signs to watch out for if you're heading down this slippery slope. Trust me, you'll want to avoid these startup killers.

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o1

OpenAI dropped their latest model, o1, and it's got everyone buzzing. It is trained to chew on problems before spitting out answers, just like we do. It's learning to refine its thinking, try new angles, and even spot its own mistakes

o1 basically thinks before it speaks, mimicking human problem-solving.

It achieved 49th percentile / 213 points in this year’s competitive programming Olympiad (IOI) under human conditions of 50 submissions per problem. But with 10,000 submissions per problem, the model achieved a score of 362.14 — above the gold medal threshold.

It scored 89% on Codeforces and even cracked the top 500 for AIME.

Look at this o1's AIME accuracy. As test-time compute increases, o1's accuracy shoots. That’s wild.

Someone gave it the Norway Mensa IQ test and scored an IQ of around 120, potentially marking the first time an AI model has surpassed the average human IQ. That’s pretty WILD!

Right now, it's available for ChatGPT Plus users and top-tier API devs. They're planning to roll out a lite version to the free crowd soon.

The big picture: This is a significant leap in reasoning capabilities. We're talking about a model that's outperforming expert humans on PhD-level science questions. That's not just cool tech; it's a whole new ballgame for real-world applications. It's not AGI, but it's a step closer to AI that can truly think through complex problems.

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