Post #4283642
2026-07-19 07:45 UTC
2/5
You can call this race hype, and that is true, and at the same moment it is one of the wildest technological arms races we have ever seen.
Frontier models are very expensive in token cost and heavily subsidized. A single 20x Max subscription gives you tokens worth several thousand dollars per week.
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@chpollin@fedihum.org 2026-07-19 07:45
3/5 Side note: over the last three weeks I organized parts of my life to max out that usage across the multiple resets, working through my "research mission control" on several projects in parallel (an AI agent orchestration technique I have been developing for a couple of months). Claude Fable 5 is pretty "smart", not as "smart" as the first Fable we saw, and not as smart as Mythos, since it is heavily safeguarded. But next to it, Opus 4.8 now feels like a "dumb" model.