> what makes you think they couldn't produce a larger, smarter, more expensive model? Because they already did try making a much larger, more expensive model,

> what makes you think they couldn't produce a larger, smarter, more expensive model? Because they already did try making a much larger, more expensive model, it was called GPT-4.5. It failed, it wasn't actually that much smarter despite being insanely expensive, and they retired it after a few months.