Re:Claude Opus 4.5
by stingraycharles on Tuesday November 25, 2025 @08:27PM
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Of course, no one is debating that. What’s being debated is whether this is done after a model’s initial release, eg Anthropic will secretly change the new Opus model to perform worse but be more cost efficient in a few weeks.
For example, in diffusion, there are some models where a Q8 quant dramatically changes what you can achieve compared to fp16. (I'm thinking of the Wan video models.) The point I'm trying to make is that it's a noticeable model change, and can be make-or-break.