alt Hacker NewsIs there any LLM from exactly one year ago that would be worth running?
In Aug 2025 you had
- OpenAI o3
- Opus 4.1
- Gemini 2.5 Pro
- Grok 4
Even if those were almost free to run, you'd be way better off with Deepseek flash 0731 or GPT 5.6 Luna, which already are almost free.
Other than for things where the t/s are critical, it seems like a bad idea to etch a model into silicon.
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singingtoday • today at 2:14 AM
We still run GPT 4.1 for some of our use cases. We want to replace it but are having trouble finding models that are as fast with similar or better intelligence.
daishi55 • yesterday at 10:57 PM
That is fkin wild. o3 was just a year ago? The progress is truly insane.
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> Is there any LLM from exactly one year ago that would be worth running?
Bad perspective: consider the correction: "when are thresholds of sought quality reached"? Hence: not "is there a 10yo from last year that could compete with the current 13yo", but "will there be a 30(?)yo from last year that could compete with the current 33(?)yo" ('(?)': the scale of yearly growth in the future is uncertain).