VentureBeat February 28, 2025
The release of OpenAI GPT-4.5 has been somewhat disappointing, with many pointing out its insane price point (about 10 to 20X more expensive than Claude 3.7 Sonnet and 15 to 30X more costly than GPT-4o).
However, given that this is OpenAI’s largest and most powerful non-reasoning model, it is worth considering its strengths and the areas where it shines.
Better knowledge and alignment
There is little detail about the model’s architecture or training corpus, but we have a rough estimate that it has been trained with 10X more compute. And, the model was so large that OpenAI needed to spread training across multiple data centers to finish in a reasonable time.
Bigger models have a larger capacity for learning...
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