This is crazy, what is the point of all these equivalent models?
replyThose are just 3 particular technical benchmarks. Presumably Opus is a larger model and has greater world knowledge.
replyPrice going down on each release
replyYup. Recursive self improvement presented in hard numbers.
replyIt's long overdue. Sonnet 5 was terrible API value for agentic coding, there were open models like GLM-5.3 Flash that blew it out of the water at 1/20th of the price.
replyOpenAI and Anthropic's lead is vanishingly small at this point.
> OpenAI and Anthropic's lead is vanishingly small at this point.
replyYep, with them nerfing their plans (and apparently planning to release a $500/$600/mo plan) their only advantage is Astra without 5hr limits and with not-too-stringent "cyber" safeguards.
Ergo, it's pretty damn good at unattended RE with the IDA MCP plugin while using most of the weekly quota at $100/mo... and that's it.
Yeah, I did kind of feel like the step down from Opus 5.5 was so large as to never make it appealing.
replyYour takeaway from "Sonnet 5.5 matches and sometimes exceeds the SoTA worldwide" is "their lead is vanishingly small"...?
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