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Ethan Mollick suspects a widening gap between internal and publicly released AI models

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Ethan Mollick said he suspects the capability gap between labs’ best internal AI models and the best publicly released model has grown substantially over the past year, especially after the temporary Fable ban. He said that gap is not well measured, framing the widening as his assessment rather than an established finding.

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  1. One thing we don’t have a good measure of is the gap between the capability of the best internal models at the labs and the best released model to the public. I suspect it has been growing quite a bit over the course of the last year, especially after the temporary Fable ban.

    One thing we don’t have a good measure of is the gap between the capability of the best internal models at the labs and the best released model to the public. I suspect it has been growing quite a bit over the course of the last year, especially after the temporary Fable ban.

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