alt Hacker NewsTerrible take, it’s tied with Astra Max yet you decided to round it down for no good reason.
Then you try to pin discount pricing when everyone has some discount going on, and knows they will release some new model before it ends anyway.
And if you’d have used Muse Max at all you’d know it’s not been really in the same league as the rest. Then again Astra and Sol are both not really competing with Opus now with 5.5 either.
It’s a solid release on paper and until anyone uses it I find anyone trying to proclaim a loser completely unreliable.
If they’re smart they pull a DeepSeek and teach flash to beat this entirely within a month or two, I wouldn’t bet against it.
Rounding down was my reading comprehension mistake. I should have read better.
Also, I have had extensive experience with all Gemini models except the recent few. Generally, they are always less precise and less practically useful than benchmarks suggest. You are right that here there is no evidence to think that. However, them announcing the model benchmarks without allowing access to anymore makes me think it might follow the same trend. Another point is the verbosity, I always look at that number to get the feel whether the model truly got smarter or it just wrote so many reasoning token to get there, Argon is on the higher side.
I would be very surprised if in practice, it was more practically useful than Astra, Sol, Opus or Fable.
> If they’re smart they pull a DeepSeek and teach flash to beat this entirely within a month or two, I wouldn’t bet against it.
Yes this would be a great outcome for every consumer.