The big question really is, are we doing it wrong, could we have created o1 for a fraction of the price. Will o4 cost less to train than o1 did?

The second question is naturally. If we create a smarter LLM, can we use it to create another LLM that is even smarter?

It would have been fantastic if DeepSeek could have come out with an o3 competitor before o3 even became publicly available. That way we would have known for sure that we’re doing it wrong. Cause then either we could have used o1 to train a better AI or we could have just trained in a smarter and cheaper way.