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A huge proportion of those scores are gamed anyways. Use whatever works for you at the price and availability you can afford
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Only comparing on SOTA scores (ignoring price etc.) is like choosing your daily-driver by looking at who makes the fastest sports-car...
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The constant improvements of SOTA are the main thing keeping the investment machine running. We can't really remove training costs from inference costs, because a bunch of the funding and loans for the inference hardware only exists because the promises the continuous training (tries to) provides.
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Not really. SOTA vs non SOTA is "can I get my coding work actually done today" vs. "this can do customer support chat"

It is like car vs. kick scooter.

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> "can I get my coding work actually done today" vs. "this can do customer support chat"

I think you need to define "can get coding work done" for this to make sense. Ive been using GPT-3 back-then for basic scripts, does that count ? Or only Claude-Code ?

I also think this is a false dichotomy, if you look at the Project Vend project or Vending-Bench, customer support etc. is at no means trivial. (Old but great story https://www.businessinsider.com/car-dealership-chevrolet-cha...)

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It really isn't. We get coding work actually done today on Opus 4.5. That's not SOTA any more, and anything proximate to that level, even quite loosely, is genuinely useful.
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OK we are in Opus 4.5 is not SOTA. Right by that definition .... yes you are right.
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I mean its almost halve a year, i think that counts ?
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Or there will be DSv4.1/2/3 ;)
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Definitely something in this realm, they call the models "preview" at a bunch of different points in the paper.

What im really hoping is for a double-punch like with V3 -> R1

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Well, if they distilled once…
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