alt Hacker NewsThe Chinese stuff is good enough for up to 80% of the frontier on most text tasks but they are significantly worse at code. They just don’t “get” what you’re asking for like Codex and Claude and require so many more iterations to get close to what you need.
Agreed. But we're seeing Cursor (now SpaceX) take these models and add great coding capability on top of them. Frontier model providers should be concerned that Composer 2.5 costs $0.50/$2.50 (versus Opus 4.8 $5/$25). That's why Google prioritized Gemini 3.5 Flash, and talked up how near-frontier it is ($1.50/$9).