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Comment by bjackman

4 days ago

It is not a competitor to those it competes with Sonnet.

Google's Opus competitor is 3.1 Pro Preview which is essentially obsolete (competed with Opus 4.6). They do not have a Fable/Sol competitor.

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nomilk  4 days ago

I wasn't aware of this. Seems Google is lagging the big 3 (Anthropic, xAI, OpenAI) when it comes to frontier models for programming and hard problem solving.

I guess Google's betting on consumers being price-elastic (preferring to tradeoff intelligence for significant cost savings)

  • bjackman  3 days ago

    "Lagging" is putting it rather lightly. GDM is no longer a frontier lab.

    FWIW neither is xAI, there is no "big 3". xAI has had momentary peaks (I think they are having one right now) but they have never been able to claim to consistently push the frontier in any particular direction. You can also infer they aren't a frontier lab from the fact that they sell their compute.