Kinda shows their team is more engineers than marketers.

To me this implies they continued the training run for 4.1 and it improved. A 4.2 would imply they changed something about how it’s trained/how inference works, and a 5.0 would be a major update (who knows what would have changed).

This is just my headcanon though.

It's not really contradictory, minor changes can have major effects.

That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.

Hoping it's minor relative to what's coming

Minor updates can provide substantial improvements sometimes, it really depends on the specifics.

They changed how it works substantially. I think it should be 4.2.

Quiet confidence backed by provenance :).

It's a bit refreshing to read updates from an AI lab without bullshit doomerism and overwhelming sense of self-importance from shit like OpenAI and Claude.

Also, DS is an excellent model.

I'm at 1 trying to get to 10. I move to 2. Minor update. 100% improvement towards goal.

These are not mutually exclusive.

That is how exponential functions work. Improve every aspect of a system with 1% and you may get easily 50% more performance.

It's about playing to two different audiences.

The CCP requires extensive certification for new major releases, to make sure a model doesn't do anything they don't want it to.

To get around this, Chinese labs only bump versions when they have to and usually claim it's a minor update.

Then on the other side, they're obviously trying to market to the tech crowd...