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by orangecat 27 days ago
the intelligence is being dialed down. Sonet 5 is a living proof of this.

Huh? Sonnet 5 is a strict improvement over Sonnet 4.6 at the same price.

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The tokenizer is 30% more expensive (it generates 30% more tokens) just they are giving an offer now which will end by end of August. On max effort its way more expensive than Opus and slightly less than fable.

It has also strong guardrails and deliberate reduced training data around cybersecurity. On purpose. If you develop a system and then try to harden it, it will miserably fail.

It’s a neutered model. Pretty sure not what they had in mind, but they have to, since they invested so much VC money in developing it.