Joking aside, this feels massive. Both that it happened so suddenly and that the announcement doesn't mince words. The fact that the CTO is now CEO makes me think it's probably not a lie about their tech. It wouldn't make sense to say "we've been lying about our capabilities" and then appoint the current CTO as CEO.
This makes me think it's either financial or a scandal around Sam himself.
I can't wait to hear more
Tempting, but you can launch Mistral-7B on your laptop and see the same coherent responses and reasoning from a 8GB model file. The magic is really there.
OpenAI fakes their AI to be first to market and then everyone else, thinking that it's possible, finds ways to do it for real.
(this is 100% a joke. I know OpenAI's work is the real deal)