alt Hacker NewsOpenAI is killing it now that they are more focused. Killing projects like Sora et al have seen it go from irrelevant to level footing with Anthropic.
Sol is so much better than Fable 5. Then we get Astra (yet to use it) few days after Fable 5.1 (which is very impressive).
Codex is slightly better than Claude Code.
Good on Sam Altman getting back to basics and turning OpenAI around.
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> Sol is so much better than Fable 5
I'm genuinely so confused when people say this with a straight face. Are you talking about coding? Desktop use? Prose? Or something else?
Sol is a much smaller models and it shows. It often misses the forest for the trees.
I’ve found Sol performance to be incredibly spiky. It has tremendous IQ and can fix very difficult bugs. But it is horrible at design (both visual and system design), anything that involves thinking about users or UX, and massively overcomplicates almost all work.
Its funny, my experience with Sol has been awful. It really overworks problems and tracks into areas it does not need to...
I just dont get how its good for some, and bad for others. It makes me suspect that the models performance is not even against problem sets and it really is just a probabilistic prediction machine. Which then makes me very skeptical of GPT-6 Astra, because if their big claim is Computer Use then it is probably bad in a bunch of other areas.
Their ads business is also doing well. Not "will recover all compute costs" well, but crossed $1b in a few months.
This is what Google needs to do and is probably why Demis has stepped back a bit
> Sol is so much better than Fable 5.
... looks around ...
I think it mostly shows that there is no moat and the only advantage the U.S companies have over the Chinese is more compute. Qwen Max, Kimi K3, GLM 5.3 are really close to Opus/Sol/Fable/Astra and they are open weights.