Right. All the evidence points to more potential being left on the table for emergent abilities. It would make no sense that the model would develop all of these complex skills for better predicting the next token, then just stop.

It's a massive bet for a company to push compute into the billion dollar range - if saying something like this has the potential to help ward off those decisions, I don't see what's stopping them from saying it.

I basically see Microsoft talking when Sam talks.