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A recent viral paper claims to reverse-engineer the parameter counts of frontier models: GPT-5.5 = 9.7T, Opus 4.7 = 4.0T, o1 = 3.5T, etc. @ben_sturgeon and I investigated and found serious issues in the paper; fixing them gives GPT-5.5 as ~1.5T (90% CI: 256B-8.3T). https://t.co/MbWQyVlmsE

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