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Qwen3.8 Max now ranked as the best overall model by agentic index

403 points · 261 comments · apitman

theropost · 1786045967 · focus · HN ↗
Anthropic is a bit nuts, I had $260 of credits on my max account for the extra usage the other night. It was expiring, so I figured I'll fire up an agentic swarm to deep dive and make some deep changes to some old cold bases.. literally 25 minutes or less, $260 burnt, it didn't get get into the implementation, just wrote a ton of useless plans for the most part. It really opened my eyes to what they expect to charge people.. wayyyy overpriced.
1. mikae1 · 1786047217 · focus · HN ↗
  And at that cost they're still not profitable. It's going to be a bumpy road ahead...
  1. tyre · 1786048090 · focus · HN ↗
    People keep saying this but from what we’ve seen, Anthropic models are marginally profitable and earn back their costs over their lifetime. The company is burning money building the next versions and other ventures (e.g. verticals), but the models themselves have been profitable.
    gamblor956 · 1786048505 · focus · HN ↗
    They're EBITDA profitable, not GAAP profitable.

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