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One developer ran the same 100 shortest slots twice per configuration. Luna 5.6 passed 82-93 at every effort level. Luna 6 passed 51-62 at medium, 55-60 at high, 36-42 at xhigh, 29-43 at max. One person's sample, and the effort-inversion is strange enough to want replication, but it puts numbers on the week's complaints that Sol 6 and Luna 6 regress on agentic work. Read it next to Anthropic's effort guidance and the picture is consistent: effort is not a general quality dial on any model.
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You can't sign up for the best coding model OpenAI has ever built. You have to be approved. By the federal government. One customer at a time. OpenAI previewed GPT-5.6 'Sol' on June 26, and the capability story is real: it's a three-model family (Sol the flagship at $5/$30 per...
The full family, Sol, Terra, and Luna, is generally available on Amazon Bedrock with IAM and VPC controls (LLM Boss, AWS). Sol targets coding, biology, and cybersecurity agentic work. Terra runs everyday tasks at about half GPT-5.5's cost, and Luna optimizes for speed. The thr...
Per-token prices went down at both labs. Subscriptions are draining faster at both labs. Those aren't in tension once you look at token counts. On the OpenAI side, r/OpenAI collected reports from Linux.do and NodeSeek alleging Astra consumes more Plus quota than its published...
Moonshot AI dropped Kimi K2.6 today and the numbers are hard to ignore. One trillion parameters total, 32 billion active per token across 384 experts, 256K context window, and native multimodal input. It scores 58.6 on SWE-Bench Pro versus GPT-5.4's 57.7 and Claude Opus 4.6's...
Martin Alderson's essay "The upcoming AI margin collapse, part 1: GLM 5.2" hit 675 points and 462 comments on Hacker News, and it's the rare HN chart-topper that's actually about spreadsheet math instead of vibes. The argument is simple. Z.ai's GLM 5.2 delivers frontier-adjace...
Day three of Plus subscribers reporting that GPT-5.6 Sol at High reasoning returns near-instant, shallow answers, and that the assistant identifies itself as GPT-5.5-mini while the model picker still reads Sol. The r/ChatGPT thread is matched by a separate r/OpenAI report and...
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