GPT-2, o1, Opus...been here so many times. The reason they do this is because they know it works (and they seem to specifically employ credulous people who are prone to believe AGI is right around the corner). There haven't been significant innovations, the code generated is still not good but the hype cycle has to retrigger.

I remember when OpenAI created the first thinking model with o1 and there were all these breathless posts on here hyperventilating about how the model had to be kept secret, how dangerous it was, etc.

Fell for it again award. All thinking does is burn output tokens for accuracy, it is the AI getting high on its own supply, this isn't innovation but it was supposed to super AGI. Not serious.