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So is o1 nicknamed “strawberry” because it was designed to solve the “how many many times does the letter R appear in strawberry” problem.



No, that was a coincidence according to an employee there


Source: https://x.com/polynoamial/status/1834312400419652079


Coincidence or not, they seem to be poking fun at it: https://openai.com/index/learning-to-reason-with-llms/#chain...

(end of the cipher example)


Or is it an obscure reference to the Dutch demogroup "Aardbei", most famous for their 64k intro "please the cookie thing" (2000)?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ycmgjZLU0xQ




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