It does not introduce incompatibilities with earlier 5.x models? Frontier models are at a point now that there will never be a need for another major version bump, aside from those chasing marketing gimmicks. They are smart enough to adapt.

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ChrisLTD 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

What would it mean to be incompatible with the other 5.x models?

	▲	paxys 5 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		New request/response schema, new capabilities, or really anything that would break your existing workflows if you changed “5.5” to “5.6” in your application. There have been many leaps forward in the past - tool calling, reasoning, agentic loops etc. 5.6 doesn’t have any of this. More intelligence doesn’t necessarily warrant a major version bump.
	▲	jurgenburgen 5 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Only speaks Klingon

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malnourish 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

A major bump will be warranted if/when we can truly separate prompt from data.

	▲	win311fwg 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		That is a different product line. It may be recorded as a version bump for marketing purposes, as already mentioned, but semantically begins at 0.

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peab 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

not true. multimodality is still far from being solved

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charcircuit 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Why would incompatibilities have anything to do with a major version bump?