The implication from their last couple of published articles[1][2] is that they think they’ve achieved “recursive self improvement”.
[1] https://openai.com/index/research-acceleration-view-inside-o... [2] https://openai.com/index/an-alien-mind/
I found this post interesting in that reguard: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/thXohzXrWCA2EhZCH/mateusz-ba...
Compute will always be the bottleneck even if this were true.
Recursive self improvement of their upcoming IPO value maybe.
They are fluffy PR pieces otherwise.