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Looks like the OAI divergence is finally taking place. Seems like the comparisons are mainly with Opus 4.6 and GPT 5.4 though. Still, exciting to see a new frontier player.

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Is it a frontier player though, or perhaps a new benchmaxxed model? People were saying similar things about Grok but it ultimately amounted to little.

"preferred by humans over Sonnet 4.6" makes it pretty clearly not benchmaxxed though.

At least when you define benchmaxxed as "good in benchmarks but not human preference".

Post 4.6 Anthropic models do not exactly have a stellar reputation, so that choice is smart.

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