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InsidiousWombat • today at 1:52 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

> I completely disagree with this. What you are saying is that performance, all they need a simple trick and they get Claude performance for free. In that case, why do we see open weight models still lagging?

Yes, they are lagging.

But "performance of Claude's from 6 months behind" is fine for a lot of tasks. And the performance of today's Claude will be still useful for many (and more and more) tasks in 6 months.

The frontier labs are making models for smaller and smaller share of the pie, as the capabilities of open models grow. That isn't sustainable


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bluebands • today at 4:12 PM

> But "performance of Claude's from 6 months behind" is fine for a lot of tasks. And the performance of today's Claude will be still useful for many (and more and more) tasks in 6 months.

Okay, then why would one buy 6-months-ago performance for 2-3x more from an open weights lab as opposed to a closed lab?

OpenAI and Anthropic are competing heavily with GPT-6 Luna and Claude Haiku 5.5!