That would be interesting. I've been a bit sceptical of the entire strategy from the beginning. If oss was actually as good as o3 mini and in some cases o4 mini outside benchmarks, that would undermine openai's api offer for gpt 5 nano and maybe mini too. Edit: found this analysis, it's on the HN frontpage right now > this thing is clearly trained via RL to think and solve tasks for specific reasoning benchmarks. nothing else. x.com/jxmnop/status/1953899426075816164

Not an empty prompt but a one-token prompt: >> i sample tokens based on average frequency and prompt with 1 token x.com/iamgrigorev/status/19539195770766…

I think foremost it's a reference to this tweet x.com/karpathy/status/18355619522587239….