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??? Closed US frontier models are vastly more effective than anything OSS right now, the reason they didn’t compare is because they’re a different weight class (and therefore product) and it’s a bit unfair.

We’re actually at a unique point right now where the gap is larger than it has been in some time. Consensus since the latest batch of releases is that we haven’t found the wall yet. 5.1 Max, Opus 4.5, and G3 are absolutely astounding models and unless you have unique requirements some way down the price/perf curve I would not even look at this release (which is fine!)