> I can't think of any reason they'd release this unless they were about to announce something which totally eclipses it Given it's only around 5 billion activ

> I can't think of any reason they'd release this unless they were about to announce something which totally eclipses it Given it's only around 5 billion active params it shouldn't be a competitor to o3 or any of the other SOTA models, given the top Deepseek and Qwen models have around 30 billion active params. Unless OpenAI somehow found a way to make a model with 5 billion active params perform as well as one with 4-8 times more.