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This got only a single comment and 34 points in 3 hours. Crazy how the dynamics have changed around model releases in just a single year.
by kevinkatzke 11mo ago
This got only a single comment and 34 points in 3 hours. Crazy how the dynamics have changed around model releases in just a single year.
- throwup238 11mo agoThere was already an announcement post for 5.1 yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45904551 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45904551
- dang 11mo agoThanks! Macroexpanded: GPT-5.1: A smarter, more conversational ChatGPT - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45904551 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45904551 - Nov 2025 (672 comments)
- amelius 11mo agoMore of the same, I suppose. You have to be called Apple to get raving reviews for that.
- observationist 11mo agoThis is the first low-key, silent feature rollout, treated like "just another software update", with no hype or buzz beforehand. Prior to this point, every other feature release was pumped for weeks or even months with "leaks" from insiders and deliberately getting people amped. I don't know if OpenAI changed marketing tactics, or if they're in a new chapter in some book, but this is a radical shift from what they were doing before.
- voc 11mo agoI feel like the rollout was a bit rushed. Benchmarks for 5.1 came out a day after the launch. New models weren't immediately available through the API. And then there's 5-Codex-Mini which was deprecated only six days later by 5.1-Codex-Mini. Wondering if Gemini 3 forced their hand here?
- anuramat 11mo agosounds like this is just a new snapshot, so I don't think anything changed (upd: anything about their marketing I mean)