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Re:Claude Opus 4.8 by teruakohatu on Thursday May 28, 2026 @04:00PM (#48314575)
Why shouldn’t they be? They are probably the same size and cost the same to run. They are not doing full training runs (eg Mythos) so don’t need to recover insane training costs.
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Re:Claude Opus 4.8 by cootsnuck on Thursday May 28, 2026 @04:07PM (#48314700)
I'd be kind of shocked if a model that came out six months ago is the same size and cost to run as one that just came out today.
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Re:Claude Opus 4.8 by jubilanti on Thursday May 28, 2026 @09:45PM (#48317963)
Same size? Maybe by a bit. Cost? Absolutely. Newer flagship models are often slightly larger each generation, but not even 2x. But more efficient architectures are coming out all the time, and it'd be a waste to retrain an old model. So it washes out.
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