Thibault Sautouille, OpenAI's engineering lead for Codex, said the Astra model boosted productivity so much the company moved its roadmap forward by six months. One speaker calls this the most important moment in human history, citing a 3:1 improvement ratio in recent models and potential for far larger gains ahead.
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The second story I'll just put forward, and then we'll talk about it, is a statement by OpenAI's engineering lead for Codex. This is Thibault Sautouille, who posted the following. And let me read from his comments. He said, Astra was probably our biggest competitive advantage while it wasn't generally available, right? So while they had it internally, it was their biggest competitive advantage. Since we've had it, our productivity jumped so much that we've shifted some of our plans 6 months ahead, and we'll ship them At Dev Day instead of mid-next year. So, I mean, Dave, you know, 6 months of roadmap being pulled forward by one model.
This is the most important moment in human history. And I truly believe that they're not lying. You know, a lot of naysayers will say, look, they're trying to promote their capabilities in advance of an IPO, blah, blah. It's not true. If you talk to the actual researchers working in the labs, many of whom are friends of ours, there's no doubt that those numbers are exactly right. And accelerating though, just a few months ago it wasn't true. Now with the Fable 5.1 and Astra models, it's absolutely 3 to 1, sure, but it's on the tipping point of being 300, 3,000, 3 million to 1 imminently. This is the moment in time that's most important in societal history.