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GPT 6.1 Sol: Near-Astra intelligence for a fifth of the price

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phpnode · 1790701901 · focus · HN ↗
What's driving the increase in release cadence here? We seem to get new models every week or so now, is this RSI?
1. Aboutplants · 1790702569 · focus · HN ↗
  I do wonder if people switch back and forth between primary models (GPTvsClaude) that it may be a better idea to simply keep releasing updates as soon as possible in order to keep users from bouncing back and forth.
  1. scrollop · 1790703009 · focus · HN ↗
    Probably one of the factors. Signed up to openai pro a few days ago, deciding between openai and anthropic, then sonnet 5.5 was released and am wondering whether I made a mistake.
    Luckily it's not a mistake as now we have access to . . . dots.
    (and sol 6.1, it seems)
  2. sockaddr · 1790703192 · focus · HN ↗
    This is it.
    It's because they need subscription money and interaction data and so keeping a version bump in the wings to stop the bleeding from your competitor's version bump is the logical thing to do. It has nothing to do with RSI.
    vividfrier · 1790704781 · focus · HN ↗
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  3. geeky4qwerty · 1790704205 · focus · HN ↗
    jokes on me, I pay for all the subscriptions.
  4. pythonaut_16 · 1790705270 · focus · HN ↗
    Maybe process maturity too.
    Like think about a software org with good CI/CD versus one without. The mature org can do consistent incremental releases because each one is safe and low overhead, the messier org will do fewer big releases because each release requires a big effort on its own.
    As model developers mature we might expect to see more frequent point releases rather than the big bang evolutions.
  5. killingtime74 · 1790722432 · focus · HN ↗
    Of course they do. The real money makers are not subscription users, but the API users and you can just switch with the model selector.

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