This is obviously false. There is "secret sauce" because in fact not all the methods and data are public.

Where does the secret sauce show up in the outputs, then?

Like, (apart from tone), I find it hard to distinguish between the outputs of GPT/Claude/Kimi/GLM recently (I use cursor, and have been giving them the same prompt and comparing).

If anything, I found that the non-Claude models were better in many cases, which definitely doesn't map to their pricing.

> in fact not all the methods and data are public

Probably not, but unless you work at a lab, I'm not sure that anyone can say (and if you do work at a lab, you should not be replying on this thread).