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

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  1. gradus_ad · · focus · HN ↗
    Ominous for the industry and investors that token price is becoming the main battleground. Could be Anthropic's rationale for IPOing this year.
    1. mixdup · · focus · HN ↗
      Another piece of evidence on the pile that the sudden panic and desire to "slow down" is because they're hitting the plateau on capability

      Which, honestly, is fine. A lot of juice to squeeze in efficiency and even if models got zero more capable, making the capability that is already here cheaper is a huge win for everyone (except Nvidia)

      1. sebzim4500 · · focus · HN ↗
        Is there anything that could happen that you wouldn't use as evidence that they are hitting a plateau?

        It just seems like these claims are constant and looking back the calls of 'plateau' between 2023 and 2025 were clearly false, why should we think it's different now?

        1. djdjdkdkfk · · focus · HN ↗
          I am a lawyer not a coder, but for me the new models make the exact dumb mistakes they did in 2023. Everytime I come here I feel I'm in an alternate reality.
          1. epihelix · · focus · HN ↗
            IANAL, but it sounds as though law hallucinations are the final frontier. Sorry.

            But coding-wise, models keep getting better and cheaper. You can train for code correctness in a way you can't train for legal correctness, and you can test your code in an agentic loop in a way you can't test a legal opinion.

            Hence your alternative reality.

            (All that said, 2023 was GPT-4 territory. GPT-4o wasn't released until 2024. No matter what question you're asking, I struggle to believe you wouldn't notice the difference between GPT-4 and the current frontier model set. You can download and run any number of sub-27B local models that will be better than GPT-4. The pace of change in this field really has been insane.)

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