I wouldn't go that far. Immediately after Q* leaked, Jimmy Apples pointed to this thread on Twitter : https://twitter.com/polynoamial/status/1676971508911198209

I wouldn't go that far. Immediately after Q* leaked, Jimmy Apples pointed to this thread on Twitter : https://twitter.com/polynoamial/status/1676971508911198209 https://twitter.com/polynoamial/status/1676971508911198209 It's Noam Brown's (former Deep Mind) "I'm joining OpenAI" thread from Back in June, and he talks about how he wants to bring some of the work from AlphaGoZero etc into OpenAI's AGI architecture. It looks like this Q-transformer work shares a lot of the same lineage of what Q* is supposed to be. This is Google's attempt at mushing Q-learning into transformer land, which is probably what Q* is as well. It's not the same thing, for sure, but they are at least sibling bodies of work.