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Gemini 4 Argon (High): Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis

112 points · 61 comments · theanonymousone

  1. aliljet · · focus · HN ↗
    It's hard to not see this as a gut punch for OpenAI. They're lead was largely captured by scoring on value (by way of reset after reset) and now they're getting eaten up on price and being bestes and equalled on performance. I'll still pay a premium for Opus 5.5 right now because it's nearly unlimited use, but Google is the quiet sleeping king Everyone is happy to watch everyone else, but I'd wager google burns more tokens through their search product than basically anyone else and now they're just quietly pacing the frontier...
    1. aleqs · · focus · HN ↗
      > Opus 5.5 right now because it's nearly unlimited use

      Anthropic has some of the lowest usage per $ in general, not sure what you're taking about.

      1. jjice · · focus · HN ↗
        I don't think the OP and your comments are mutually exclusive. If Anthropic usage is lower, and the OP considers it basically unlimited for their case, that just means that they would have virtually unlimited usage with other plans.
        1. aleqs · · focus · HN ↗
          Nothing about it is unlimited or even close to it. Just because you only use 1gb of your 2gb data plan, doesn't mean you have unlimited data.
          1. 8n4vidtmkvmk · · focus · HN ↗
            What if you use 100GB of your 10TB plan? Is it virtually unlimited then?

            It's all relative. Some people just can't use up their quotas with their normal usage.

            1. aleqs · · focus · HN ↗
              That just means your use is limited not that the plan is unlimited.
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