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by stymaar8 hours ago |
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upvoteby nycdatasci8 hours ago|
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Opus 5.5 was a step function change. Really crushes on multi-hour coding compared with prior models.
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upvoteby jjcm6 hours ago|
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Highly agree.

I keep saying “I’d be so Happy with ${currentOpusVersion} locally”, but I keep being impressed with how much the capabilities change between versions. I have a RTX 6000 pro so I can easily run this qwen 3.8 flash next, but it’s much harder to give up the freedom that 5.5 gives me.

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upvoteby hgoel8 hours ago|
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The most visible leap between 4.6 and 5.5 seems to be that the latter has gotten much more computer-use training, so there's a clear progression in the ability for the model to use Blender. But catching up on that is just a matter of training on the same thing.
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upvoteby system28 hours ago|
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I would be forever happy with Opus 4.8.
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upvoteby bitexploder7 hours ago|
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Flash next is /really/ close. It is at parity with 4.7 as far as I can tell and basically where Opus 4.8 was. It is a genuinely good model. And I run it at home on $1500 of GPU at 125 t/s :)
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upvoteby gruturo7 hours ago|
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Seconding this. Flash-next (and let's not forget, it's a PREVIEW of the 4 architecture - with the "real" 4 rumored coming later this month) is the first model I can run on reasonable hardware (2 thoroughly obsolete P100s off ebay at ~$100 each plus the RAM I could scavenge from other PCs at home) at a reasonable speed (22, with GPUs in layer-split due to llama-cpp's limitation on qwen4-exp arch, and no MTP. Strata could double these numbers).

It's.... the real thing, for the first time. If you cut me off cloud models today, I would get plenty of utility out of this thing.

(Others may have had the same feeling from GLM5.3 or Deepseek 4.1 flash but I never had a chance of running those.)

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upvoteby fsiefken4 hours ago|
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Running an nvidia card at full load, would cost me ~100 euro of electricty each month (europe). Of course one wouldn't have usage caps.

Where the internet was a subscription 15 euro subscription to encyclopaedic knowledge, an genAI subscription is renting a researcher/programmer for 100 euro.

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upvoteby stymaar4 hours ago|
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> (europe)

Given the massive difference in electricity price between different european countries, adding "Europe" doesn't bring much context.

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upvoteby magicalhippo3 hours ago|
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Even with a country. Here in Norway we have multiple price zones, and at times there can be 100x difference between them, often 10x. All due to lack of transmission capacity between northern and southern zones.
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upvoteby bitexploder1 hours ago|
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These GPUs use about 400W at full tilt (200W each), for reference.
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