[michaelmrose]

This comment lives in a fictional world where there is a singular group that could have collectively acted counterfactually. In the real world any actor that individually went this route would have gone bankrupt while the others collected money by showing actual results even if ineffeciently earned.

[newyankee]

Also it is likely that the rise of LLMs gave many researchers in allied fields the impetus to tackle with the problems that are relevant to making it more efficient and people stumbled upon a solution hiding there.

The momentum with LLMs and allied technology may last till it keeps on improving even by a few percentage points and keeps shattering human created new benchmarks every few months