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		8n4vidtmkvmk 11 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Gemini 2.5 I figured you don't update the major unless you significantly change the... algorithm, for lack of a better word. At least I assume something major changed between how they trained ChatGPT 3 vs GPT 4, other than amount of data. But maybe I'm wrong.

eru 11 months ago [–]

The number is purely for marketing.

If you could get much better performance without changing the algorithm (eg just by scaling), you'd still bump the number.

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