alt Hacker NewsGPT 6.1 Sol: Near-Astra intelligence for a fifth of the price
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GPT 6.0 Sol was so terrible—I wonder if 6.1 Sol will be good?
Came here only to check if the pelican spam has made it to the top again.
GPT-6 Sol released a week ago. Shortest model life ever?
I have used both extensively and I don’t care what the bench marks say - Claude has been way, way better and most importantly, predictable
I can handle issues much better if they are predictable even if the model makes mistakes — much more frustrating when the model is erratic
I find codex wanders off road more often and fails to see the “bigger picture” (as much as LLMs can see the bigger picture at least)
And tbh when it was first released Astral felt even worse
I’m being forced to use it right now and at the end of the day I’m making do so it’s fine, but Claude makes for a smoother experience
I stopped using LLMs. I shit you not. My life got better.
Okay, now price cut 6 Sol (and rename it to Terra again).
All of a sudden getting competitive on token pricing over the past couple of releases tells me they’re about to kill subscription pricing big time. The subsidised tokens aren’t going to survive the IPOs but if they can capture baseline dev tasks at a cost competitive with open weight models through Luna then capture the frontier token spend as well they could be pretty well placed. The Jarvis bros aren’t going to be able to afford their dashboards though.
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If these models are so smart, can't _they_ select the right model for each task?
Let's all boycott and move to Claude until they release 6.1 Astra. I don't like to be teased.
When is the alleged "safety" concern satisfied? Does this mean releasing new capability to consumers is going to get a lot slower? Lower price for 6 Astra capability via this 6.1 Sol is exciting, but that is because of Astra capability not merely the low price point.
When do we get the next jump in capability? When is 6.1 Astra released?
I wish they'd list the environmental cost. My employer has an unlimited AI budget so I don't care about using Astra if it's just more profit for OpenAI. I care more if it actually uses 5x more energy.