DS4 Flash is so cheap also, imagine what the numbers look like for a flagship model like Opus 5.5, which charges 100x more. Of course inference for that model also costs more, but I doubt the proportion is the same.

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throwaw12 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Or now, Anthropic will distill the knowledge from this engine and optimize their inference.

	▲	Schlagbohrer 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		The top quality frontier models are used to compress / improve the earlier, lesser models, to make them more efficient. So that pushes costs way down on previous models.