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Re:Claude Opus 4.8 by onlyrealcuzzo on Friday May 29, 2026 @07:08AM (#48321624)
> I couldn’t even imagine having to go back to a model from 12 months ago, much less 24 months ago. GPT-5.5 is so much better than GPT-4o that it sure seems like they keep finding new juice to squeeze

The difference in progress in smaller models is far more impressive.

Compare Gemini 3.5 Flash to a ~16B parameter model from 24 months ago.

Compare GPT-5.5 to a frontier model 24 months ago.

Yes, GPT-5.5 got better. At orders of magnitude smaller parameter sizes (when factoring in ACTIVE parameters) the increase is far more pronounced.

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Re:Claude Opus 4.8 by pseudosavant on Friday May 29, 2026 @10:54AM (#48323857)
Totally agree on smaller models making even more impressive gains. Gemini 3.5 Flash is better than the biggest SOTA model from 24 months ago, not just a 16B parameter one. GPT-4o came out 24 months ago, and there is no way I'd choose that over Gemini 3.5 Flash today.
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