My first thought seeing this and looking at benchmarks was that if it wasn’t for reasoning, then either pundits would be saying we’ve hit a plateau, or at the v

My first thought seeing this and looking at benchmarks was that if it wasn’t for reasoning, then either pundits would be saying we’ve hit a plateau, or at the very least OpenAI is clearly in 2nd place to Anthropic in model performance. Of course we don’t live in such a world, but I thought of this nonetheless because for all the connotations that come with a 4.5 moniker this is kind of underwhelming.