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Re:Claude Opus 4.8 by merlindru on Thursday May 28, 2026 @01:21PM (#48312296)
surely training also gets cheaper so justifying it becomes easier?

i think it'll be more like we get 1-10T models and then distill those down into smaller models, though

It seems like the best small models today are all distilled from bigger models

Moreover, I hypothesize Claude Opus 4.7 and now 4.8 are a distillation of Claude Mythos

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Re:Claude Opus 4.8 by pseudohadamard on Friday May 29, 2026 @10:39AM (#48323661)
That's the impression I got too, it seems closer to what the marketing has told us about Mythos than 4.6/4.7 were.
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