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🫢 OpenAI’s Japan CEO Leak

🔣 Paradigm, Reinventing spreadsheets with AI

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🤔 OpenAI’s SearchGPT Gets Mixed Results

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NEWSREEL

OpenAI’s Japan CEO Leak

OpenAI Japan’s CEO, Tadao Nagasaki, might have leaked the biggest news of this year, potentially confirming the release of a new OpenAI model this fall, something that The Information leaked, too, and which I covered in TheWhiteBox Notion knowledge base in much more detail than the latter.

In the image above, Tadao illustrates a potential 100x increase in ‘model intelligence’ (y-axis) regarding their current flagship model, GPT-4o, indicating that we should see a step-function improvement over model quality before the end of the year.

TheWhiteBox’s take:

From what we uncovered in our Notion article linked above, OpenAI seems to be following a multiple-model strategy.

It will first release a model codenamed ‘Strawberry,’ most likely the GPT-Next shown by Tadao, which would already be a considerable improvement. Furthermore, they are allegedly using this model to train an even better one, codenamed Orion, which will require trillion-token-scale Strawberry synthetic data to train in what could become GPT-5, which will not arrive anytime soon (end of 2025, probably 2026).

Now, how legit is all this?

Well, OpenAI are master storytellers. They control the narrative; they are the iconic brand in AI. However, for the past year, most of these stories have been more hype than truth, with nothing to show for their grandiose promises.

And with a profoundly unprofitable business losing billions every year and a potentially huge investment round coming around the corner in an industry (LLMs) that open-source is rapidly commoditizing, the need for hype is larger than ever, so take this news with a pinch of salt.

However, it’s no secret that OpenAI needs a banger. And they need it soon.

PRODUCT

Paradigm AI Wants To Reinvent Spreadsheets

In a remarkable demo, Paradigm AI, a Y-Combinator start-up, has emerged from stealth with a product that turns every cell in your spreadsheet into a ‘GenAI environment.’

The link includes a small video demonstration showing the product filling the spreadsheet in seconds based on a user request.

TheWhiteBox’s take:

As with any GenAI product demo, you can ‘feel the magic.’ But, sadly, most of these demos rarely translate into reality as expected, as Generative AI’s worst enemy, unreliability, kicks in when actually deploying them.

Having a ‘spreadsheet AI’ that can turn your analytics game into a declarative one, where you do the questioning and the AIs do the work, is extremely compelling. But nobody will implement a product you can’t trust, especially when spreadsheets are highly deterministic and used in error-sensitive tasks.

Therefore,…

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