GPT-4.5: "Not a frontier model"?
Summary
A community discussion regarding OpenAI's GPT-4.5, focusing on its parameter count, pricing, performance relative to other models, and its status as a frontier model.
Key quotes
GPT-4.5 feels like OpenAI's way of discovering just how much we'll pay for diminishing returns.
OpenAI has been building larger and larger models to great success for a long time... What really happened is this method of scaling hit a wall and they were left with an expensive dud
The discussion includes rumors that GPT-4.5 is a scaled-up version of a previously shelved model (possibly ‘Orion’) with a significantly higher parameter count. Users debate its practical utility in business and creative writing compared to Claude and Gemini.