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ComputerGuruyesterday at 7:58 PM4 repliesview on HN

“ Terra has competitive performance to GPT‑5.5 [while being 2x cheaper]…”

To me that means “it’s an inferior product but marketing dictates we try and hide that.”

And “our most robust safety stack to date. We strengthened protections for higher-risk activity, sensitive cyber requests, and repeated misuse, and spent multiple weeks finding weaknesses, pressure-testing our system, and hardening it against real-world attacks” is of zero value to me at best, and most likely to my detriment (increasing refusals or nerfing utility). Why do providers keep leading with that? Are there customers (besides support ChatGPT chatbot users, maybe??) that ask for this?


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typpoyesterday at 9:16 PM

>> Terra has competitive performance to GPT‑5.5 [while being 2x cheaper]…

> To me that means “it’s an inferior product but marketing dictates we try and hide that.”

I interpret this to mean you're about to get today's mainline performance at a fraction of the price.

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beeringyesterday at 10:13 PM

The point of Terra is to be cheaper than the best model while being pretty good. Of course it’s inferior in intelligence.

goobatroobayesterday at 8:54 PM

Maybe that message is for investors.

dcreyesterday at 10:06 PM

That message is obviously aimed at the government. See the other thread.