In the old days of flashy tech conferences, that was precisely the sign of business-driven demo wizardry.
The prerecorded videos, the staff-presented demos, the empty hardware chassis, the suggestive technical details, etc
They have “reasons” for not giving away details, but there are good odds that the ultimate reason is that this is a superficial product update with a lot of flashy patchwork rather than that fundamental advance in AI technology we’d assume from the name.
Yeah it's a bit silly to act like this is all marketing fluff when the actual product is released to the public and we can all compare it to results of GPT3.5.
A mining company protecting access to the gold mine is different than a company with a fools gold mine limiting access to the mine to delay analysis.
There might be an "empty chassis" in the academic paper but that's different than tech companies betting on their closed sourced licensing/marketing to spin something less-than-whole.
The prerecorded videos, the staff-presented demos, the empty hardware chassis, the suggestive technical details, etc
They have “reasons” for not giving away details, but there are good odds that the ultimate reason is that this is a superficial product update with a lot of flashy patchwork rather than that fundamental advance in AI technology we’d assume from the name.