alt Hacker NewsThat's a tautology. People think chinese models are 10x more efficient because they're 10x cheaper, and then you use that to claim that they're 10x more efficient.
Opus isn't that expensive to host. Look at Amazon Bedrock's t/s numbers for Opus 4.5 vs other chinese models. They're around the same order of magnitude- which means that Opus has roughly the same amount of active params as the chinese models.
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This is not a valid argument. TPS is essentially QoS and can be adjusted; more GPUs allocated will result in higher speed.
> That's a tautology. People think chinese models are 10x more efficient because they're 10x cheaper
They do have different infrastructure / electricity costs and they might not run on nvidia hardware.
It's not just the models.
Opus doubled in speed with version 4.5, leading me to speculate that they had promoted a sonnet size model. The new faster opus was the same speed as Gemini 3 flash running on the same TPUs. I think anthropics margins are probably the highest in the industry, but they have to chop that up with google by renting their TPUs.