Let me guess: it's the end of the world again. These new models are sooo powerful that will take over the world, just like the others before them.

Are they going to try the banned for export for a week marketing move too?

Nobody is saying that. I'm reading more underwhelment.

Oh, the halcyon days of three months ago when a new flagship from a frontier lab generated excitement rather than a shrug.

much of the commentary here is about quota usage and costs, how the times have changed

Well I have opus 4.8 pinned :) More "frontier" models seem to create more busywork for themselves in my limited testing.

	▲	verdverm 10 hours ago \| parent [-]
		if I can put my tinfoil hat on for a moment, creating more tokens / busywork is in their investors' / IPO interest