They chose to compare against Open AI’s mid tier model Terra instead of Sol and still lost some benchmark against it.

They left Opus in and got beat in all but one benchmark.

Nothing wrong with trying to improve, but why the marketing games?

Instead of trying to say in the post you’re “closer” to frontier, first set a clear goal to beat the Chinese labs on price or performance and demonstrate it convincingly.

Then when your ready, come back and talk frontier without playing hide the model.