alt Hacker NewsBecause DeepSeek is not "a month or two" behind as claimed in the article.
These open models still did not beat February's Mythos / Fable 5.
DeepSeek 4.1 Flash is behind GPT 5.6 Sol, and that one is left in the dust by the excellent Opus 5.5.
Rumors say Anthropic is holding in reserve the big improvement, Fable 5.5, for the IPO.
It's plausible that open models are 6 - 12 months behind, and there is no "good enough". As long as progress doesn't slow down, leading labs have nothing to fear.
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that just sounds like openai/anthropic cope/propaganda, based on absolutely nothing objective lol
even their harnesses are far surpassed by pi and opencode at this point
also sick 'rumors' lmao, apparently marketing through rumors is in vogue these days
There absolutely is "good enough" and I agree with this author: DeepSeek 4.1 Flash is plenty good enough for all the things I would trust an AI to do at my job.
I was thinking about this earlier today and I came to the following question:
If you had a model 10x as capable as the best model out today, but it cost 100x more, would there be a market, and, if so, how big?
I think there would be a market and I think it would be large.
So, I agree.