> This is just getting to be a bit much, seems like they are trying to cover for the fact that they haven't actually done much. All these models feel like they took the exact same base model, tweaked a few things and released it as an entirely new model

OpenAI's progress lately:

  2024 December - first reasoning model (official release)

  2025 February - deep search

  2025 March - true multi-modal image generation

  2025 April - reasoning model with tools

I'm not sure why people say they haven't done much. We couldn't even dream of stuff like this five years ago, and now releasing groundbreaking/novel features every month is considered "meh"... I think we're spoiled and can't appreciate anything anymore :)