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Re:Hot take: GPT 4.5 is a nothing burger by tptacek on Friday February 28, 2025 @06:10PM (#43213007)
It seems unlikely that an 8.48% one-day drop in NVDA would be a referendum on how much better GPT 4.5 was than GPT 4.
Re:Hot take: GPT 4.5 is a nothing burger by eru on Friday February 28, 2025 @06:58PM (#43213599)
It's even worse to read anything into it, because of expectations:

The stock market could have priced in the model being 10x better, but in the end it turned out to be only 8x better, and we'd see a drop.

Similarly, in a counterfactual, if the stock market had expected the new model to be a regression to 0.5x, but we only saw a 0.9x regression, the stock might go up, despite the model being worse than the predecessor.

Re:Hot take: GPT 4.5 is a nothing burger by AnotherGoodName on Friday February 28, 2025 @06:46PM (#43213438)
Especially since Nvidia just released quarterly earnings this week. That's the real reason for the big movements.
Re:Hot take: GPT 4.5 is a nothing burger by TwoPhonesOneKid on Friday February 28, 2025 @06:36PM (#43213333)
Yea but consulting the stock market for valuation seems like consulting a council of local morons what they think of someone. Any signal provoking such a drop would itself be many times more valuable, if it is indeed meaningful in the first place.
Re:Hot take: GPT 4.5 is a nothing burger by guelo on Friday February 28, 2025 @07:28PM (#43213964)
Why not? The P/E ratio went from 55 to 47, my back of the napkin approximation interprets that as the market expecting ≈ 4%/year reduction in forecasted earnings. Which actually seems conservative if the market is digesting the news that LLMs are hitting scaling walls.
Re:Hot take: GPT 4.5 is a nothing burger by borgdefenser on Saturday March 01, 2025 @08:42AM (#43219134)
I just don't think this is true though. I actually got long more NVDA on the pullback.

Sonnet 3.7 is unbelievable.

It would hardly be shocking though if OpenAI hits a wall. I couldn't get an invite to Friendster, I loved Myspace, I loved Altavista. It is really hard to take the early lead in a marathon and just blow every out of the water the whole race without running out of gas.