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by qq66 56 days ago
This is the backdoor way of raising prices... just inflate the token pricing. It's like ice cream companies shrinking the box instead of raising the price
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No, you're forgetting the never ending world shattering models being released every couple of months. Each one with 2X token costs of course, for a vague performance gain and that will deprecate the previous ones.
It’s nice to see comments like this. It makes me feel less crazy. Something very weird is going on behind the scenes at Anthropic.
https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/about-claude/model-depre...

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