GPT-4 Takes a Holiday Break, Microsoft Responds to Gemini, OpenAI Partners with Journalists, & New LLM Compression Obviates GPUs

LLMs may take it easy over the holidays, Microsoft responded to Google's Gemini performance metrics, OpenAI announced a partnership with journalists, and a new compression method could obviate GPUs

GPT-4 Might Be Taking a Winter Break

We may not anthropomorphize large language models enough, as even they take it easy during the holidays 🎄. This makes sense, when you consider all of the material LLMs have consumed about holiday breaks and seasonal depression.

Rob Lynch discovered that GPT-4's API produces shorter completions when it "thinks" the month is December (orange) compared to May (blue). This is being measured while many users are complaining about GPT-4 getting lazy.

While this sounds too to be true, the differences are statistically significant, and have already been independently reproduced. Some are calling this phenomenon the "AI Winter Break Hypothesis".