Sol fast isn't the Cerebras 750 tok/s version, it's just 1.5x speed at 2.5x price I assume they didn't use the Cerebras version for this since it's probably very supply-constrained right now
Annoying they didn't show benchmarks for several effort modes, since it seems like it might close the gap with Opus 4.8 by cranking tokens up? Noam Brown (OpenAI) "Implications of Large-Scale Test-Time Compute"…
I think this one is just a coincidence, bound to happen given the pace of releases For exact timing, probably 10-11am Pacific is just optimal for normal working hours
They should add a Sonnet 5 fast mode at ~Opus pricing
I think the incentives are less bad since a good chunk of usage comes from subscription plans. There was a fairly major regression in Claude Code performance for some time when they changed the system prompt to try and…
I was surprised to learn that Sonnet generally has the same tokens per second as Opus
Wow, seems worse even on price/performance than GLM 5.2, which is only 744b parameters. From the system card: "On CyberGym vulnerability discovery, Claude Sonnet 5 is less capable than Sonnet 4.6, and far less capable…
That's for their `JSON` data types. In DuckDB it's just a string meaning lots of queries will have to do JSON parsing on every row, but the inserts are very fast. Definitely a bit of a footgun and when you actually just…
It's great but you definitely pay for it. Encoding can be really slow, and to a lesser extent decoding as well. So I still end up using .jpg quite often, or .webp as a good middle ground
My favorite spatial reasoning benchmark: https://minebench.ai/ no tricks, I'd definitely be curious to know how much screenshots help
They reserved the option to buy it at this price, and are now exercising it
> If the government takes the bulk of your income after a certain point, there isn't really that big of a push to create ground-breaking technology. I'm skeptical that high taxes is a large reason to lose to California…
I'm almost certain $2800 is actually too low if you're really hitting weekly limits. I'm on the $100/m plan and used $300 at API billing yesterday (according to ccusage) Seems like one session is >$100 and I can get 10…
If they ban GPUs we can always multiply the matrices on paper
Interesting comparison, thanks for sharing! It reminds me of this post about how machine learning and encryption have some fundamental similarities: https://reiner.org/neural-net-ciphers > I can certainly imagine LLMs…
My guess is that they liked the status quo with Project Glasswing and didn't want Fable to be public, especially if anyone is jailbreaking it into Mythos and using it for cyber But then it backfired spectacularly and…
I'd guess it's absurdly good business wise, given API pricing is like 10-30x as much
It's certainly worse news for Anthropic than other labs since it's not completely random, and there's people in the administration (e.g. David Sacks) who don't like Anthropic -- perhaps seeing them as an enemy
Seems like estimates are that 70-85% of their revenue comes from API usage/pricing, so some users switching from Opus to Fable for that would've had a big impact Then there's people switching from GPT 5.5 or upgrading…
Does low/medium effort fix it for you? Seems like Fable 5 low can outperform Opus 4.8 high/xhigh often, and uses a lot fewer tokens
Looks like it'll be more like $2t https://polymarket.com/event/anthropic-ipo-closing-market-ca...
I suspect it's less true now that synthetic data has worked so well, and multimodal doesn't seem to transfer as well as many would've hoped Claude Code and Codex are a big advantage, vs Gemini CLI which might be…
Yeah it's very murky, but if they're arguably profitable under some definition of profitable, then it's ridiculous to claim there's "no path to profitability" Especially if you assume that 6 months ago they weren't very…
I think there's just less time between model releases now
That feels really hard to argue now that Anthropic/OpenAI are so much bigger How the hell do you crush a ~1T company on the one thing they have all their focus on?
Sol fast isn't the Cerebras 750 tok/s version, it's just 1.5x speed at 2.5x price I assume they didn't use the Cerebras version for this since it's probably very supply-constrained right now
Annoying they didn't show benchmarks for several effort modes, since it seems like it might close the gap with Opus 4.8 by cranking tokens up? Noam Brown (OpenAI) "Implications of Large-Scale Test-Time Compute"…
I think this one is just a coincidence, bound to happen given the pace of releases For exact timing, probably 10-11am Pacific is just optimal for normal working hours
They should add a Sonnet 5 fast mode at ~Opus pricing
I think the incentives are less bad since a good chunk of usage comes from subscription plans. There was a fairly major regression in Claude Code performance for some time when they changed the system prompt to try and…
I was surprised to learn that Sonnet generally has the same tokens per second as Opus
Wow, seems worse even on price/performance than GLM 5.2, which is only 744b parameters. From the system card: "On CyberGym vulnerability discovery, Claude Sonnet 5 is less capable than Sonnet 4.6, and far less capable…
That's for their `JSON` data types. In DuckDB it's just a string meaning lots of queries will have to do JSON parsing on every row, but the inserts are very fast. Definitely a bit of a footgun and when you actually just…
It's great but you definitely pay for it. Encoding can be really slow, and to a lesser extent decoding as well. So I still end up using .jpg quite often, or .webp as a good middle ground
My favorite spatial reasoning benchmark: https://minebench.ai/ no tricks, I'd definitely be curious to know how much screenshots help
They reserved the option to buy it at this price, and are now exercising it
> If the government takes the bulk of your income after a certain point, there isn't really that big of a push to create ground-breaking technology. I'm skeptical that high taxes is a large reason to lose to California…
I'm almost certain $2800 is actually too low if you're really hitting weekly limits. I'm on the $100/m plan and used $300 at API billing yesterday (according to ccusage) Seems like one session is >$100 and I can get 10…
If they ban GPUs we can always multiply the matrices on paper
Interesting comparison, thanks for sharing! It reminds me of this post about how machine learning and encryption have some fundamental similarities: https://reiner.org/neural-net-ciphers > I can certainly imagine LLMs…
My guess is that they liked the status quo with Project Glasswing and didn't want Fable to be public, especially if anyone is jailbreaking it into Mythos and using it for cyber But then it backfired spectacularly and…
I'd guess it's absurdly good business wise, given API pricing is like 10-30x as much
It's certainly worse news for Anthropic than other labs since it's not completely random, and there's people in the administration (e.g. David Sacks) who don't like Anthropic -- perhaps seeing them as an enemy
Seems like estimates are that 70-85% of their revenue comes from API usage/pricing, so some users switching from Opus to Fable for that would've had a big impact Then there's people switching from GPT 5.5 or upgrading…
Does low/medium effort fix it for you? Seems like Fable 5 low can outperform Opus 4.8 high/xhigh often, and uses a lot fewer tokens
Looks like it'll be more like $2t https://polymarket.com/event/anthropic-ipo-closing-market-ca...
I suspect it's less true now that synthetic data has worked so well, and multimodal doesn't seem to transfer as well as many would've hoped Claude Code and Codex are a big advantage, vs Gemini CLI which might be…
Yeah it's very murky, but if they're arguably profitable under some definition of profitable, then it's ridiculous to claim there's "no path to profitability" Especially if you assume that 6 months ago they weren't very…
I think there's just less time between model releases now
That feels really hard to argue now that Anthropic/OpenAI are so much bigger How the hell do you crush a ~1T company on the one thing they have all their focus on?