Whether it beats ChatGPT right now is important to me, right now.
I'm very excited about everyone doing work even when they're not beating ChatGPT right now, of course.
But how it compares to ChatGPT right now is extremely relevant to lots of people.
It's also become very common to vaguely reference OpenAI's offerings when announcing new models without saying how they actually compare, or only mentioning some small way in which it compares favorably.
(Though it seems to often be that some comment from the article comparing to OpenAI gets promoted to the title when posted on HN, like here.)
I think this is somewhat of a naive way to look at this. Yes, ChatGPT is really good, but they're basically completely closed source. A lot of the power of LLMs can and will come from open sourced models that anyone can dig into the weights and tune it for their use case, as well as train and run on their own platform.
I'm very excited about everyone doing work even when they're not beating ChatGPT right now, of course.
But how it compares to ChatGPT right now is extremely relevant to lots of people.
It's also become very common to vaguely reference OpenAI's offerings when announcing new models without saying how they actually compare, or only mentioning some small way in which it compares favorably.
(Though it seems to often be that some comment from the article comparing to OpenAI gets promoted to the title when posted on HN, like here.)