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It's still a data point saying that OpenAI chose to do a large training run, though, right? Even if they're currently not planning to make sustained use of the resulting model in deployment. (Also, my shaky understanding is that expectations are for a GPT-5 to be released in the coming months and that it may be a distilled + post-trained derivative of GPT-4.5, meaning GPT-5 would be downstream of a large-compute-budget training process?)