Comment by iAMkenough

I'm curious how many other 300 billion output tokens OpenAI has "paid for" that have resulted in no breakthroughs.

Either they had a pretty good idea that investing this type of money in that compute on a model in training would lead to these specific results, or they gambled with other people's money.

I want to hear about the gambles and expenditures they don't brag about. In America's energy economy, there's finite resources to expend.