Date: September 28th, 2026 10:54 PM Author: laughsome shaky organic girlfriend ape
nah open ai is cheaper than anthropic. they already released their "opus class" model, sol 6, and it's half the price of the previous sol and luna is the cheapest most cost-effective pound for pound of any model, destroys all the chinese models. And Astra and Fable 5.1 are the same price, but Astra ends up being cheaper because it doesn't waste as many tokens.
Date: September 28th, 2026 10:52 PM Author: Contagious apoplectic quadroon
At least Gemini 4 Pro will be here soon enough and will likely be quite good. The flash models recently seem to indicate Google has finally figured out post-training and 4 pro is a dramatically larger pre-trained model.
Date: September 28th, 2026 11:04 PM Author: Contagious apoplectic quadroon
The 3.5 pro pre-train was apparently a failure (otherwise they would have continued to work to post-train it into something decent). No idea why that happened. 3.1 pro was a good model for a bit but quickly dominated by competitors.
Date: September 28th, 2026 11:21 PM Author: Contagious apoplectic quadroon
Yeah, that’s why i use Gemini 3.8 flash for stuff that doesn’t require the highest intelligence.
At least Opus 5.5 is writing like a normal person again. I couldn’t stand Opus 5 for anything except coding because of the inscrutable, bizarre writing.