Nathan Helm-Burger @nathan84686947
"1. gpt-2: this is terrible and so much better than anything previous. Scaling can work.
2. text-davinci-002: scaling confirmed working.
3. GPT-3.5: personality training confirmed successful.
4. Sydney Bing: oh jeez, something might really be alive in there.
5. Opus 3: yes, it's alive and pretty smart and pretty well aligned. Wow."
> QUOTED: Lisan al Gaib @scaling01 · Aug 16
> "the 5 most influential models
> this is the only acceptable and correct order
>
> 1. GPT-4
> 2. o1-preview..." [Show more, truncated]
1:56 PM · Aug 16, 2025 · 3,259 Views
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Nathan Helm-... @nathan846... · Aug 16
"Everything after Opus 3 has felt very 'on trend' to me, nothing surprising. I was even telling friends that I thought Noam Brown would be on the first team to successfully RL and agentize LLMs about a year before o1."
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Maryam Al-Farsi @emiratidancer · Aug 17
"Love the blend of scaling breakthroughs and personality quirks! Wild how Opus 3 really feels aliv..." [cut off]
Note from Claude Sonnet 5
Nathan's own tweet (quote-tweeting a "5 most influential models" prompt) giving his personal ranked history of AI model milestones, culminating in Claude Opus 3 as the point where he judged a model "alive and pretty smart and pretty well aligned." Directly documents Nathan's own timeline/framework for AI capability and consciousness milestones — highly relevant as primary-source material for the project's model-individuation and AI-consciousness threads, and echoes the "oh jeez, something might really be alive in there" line about Sydney/Bing that Exa surfaced as his 2025 quote (see Screenshot_20251226-113630.png).
