And not only is it twice as fast at half the cost, while benchmarking better... It also is multimodal over audio, including understanding turn-taking and ad hoc

And not only is it twice as fast at half the cost, while benchmarking better... It also is multimodal over audio, including understanding turn-taking and ad hoc interruptions in human conversation and recognizing multiple speakers. That's a lot of extra capabilities — not every advancement is measured in logical reasoning on text. Gary Marcus was an advocate of neuro-symbolic approaches to AI, as opposed to deep learning, and he's been incorrectly predicting that "Deep learning is hitting a wall" since the GPT-2 days. His Substack is near-daily low-content negative articles about LLMs, and on Twitter he posts multiple times a day about it and hasn't stopped for years.