The reality is that they're a hell of a lot less cheap on American hardware than on Chinese hardware. At the point you are running Chinese models on US hardware, "Why not nano or haiku" becomes the next relevant question.

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computerex 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Not true. Togetherai, deepinfra, fireworks AI offer a wide range of models like gpt oss that are very capable and far cheaper than the models from big 3.

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cactusplant7374 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Are they better? Are they better than GPT5.5?

	▲	computerex 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		That depends on the use case. For a lot of business use cases they are good enough. They are certainly better than older models like gpt-4o.