'o1 was AI's biggest moment' — Epoch chart shows post-o1 gains turned incremental

flowersslop · x · 2026-11-07

flowersslop argues o1 was the biggest moment in AI so far — a leap across general use cases, not just math — and nothing since has come close; but he's confident we'll see another such moment next year.

The attached Epoch AI chart shows science/math reasoning over time: GPQA Diamond climbed from 36% in the GPT-4 era to 77% with o1 (Jan 2025), then rose more gradually past 95% with GPT-5, GPT-5.5, and GPT-6.1 Sol, while Mock AIME saturated near 100% after o3 — illustrating that o1's jump gave way to incremental progress.

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