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by cubefox 26 days ago
> makes use of parallel test time compute

Any idea what that means exactly? I vaguely remember that ChatGPT Pro was originally called "deep thought", just like Geminis "deep thought" feature (or "deep think"?), so it seems likely they are using the same approach.
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nl 26 days ago
Their methodology isn't published.

Its widely accepted[1] that it runs the same query through the model in parallel and then has a model that either selects the best answer or synthesizes an answer from the multiple ones generated.

I believe most people think it runs 6 sub-models, but I think that is based on the pricing.

It's a pity that OpenAI doesn't publish details like this.

[1]eg https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48799977

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dannyw 26 days ago
Basically like passes@6 or passes@5 if you’re doing a benchmark, except for your real tasks.

Pro is quite limited on the web UI I reckon. This approach can be highly effective for reasonably verifiable task, for example, write comprehensive unit tests pointing out a tricky bug, get multiple agents to swarm at it.

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nl 26 days ago
It's been very successful at frontier math tasks - a bunch of the Erdos questions have been solved by it - more than any other model.

https://www.erdosproblems.com/

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cubefox 26 days ago
> Basically like passes@6 or passes@5 if you’re doing a benchmark, except for your real tasks.

It's unclear how they would do this when there is no signal that provides an objective ground truth.

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