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We’re all just going to use Opus, GPT or Gemini let’s be honest

Chinese models have become really good and cheap. MiMo V2.5 Pro, Kimi K2.7-code, Minimax M3 etc

Maybe a year ago I’d agree but the gap has grown. I also pay for Cursor which is based on Kimi and there is no comparison for complex code gen vs Fable. It mostly succeeds well at small rapid fire stuff which is the only reason I pay for it (plus the IDE DX). But any heavy feature planning and prototyping I use Claude.

I predict they will all be mostly the same in 5+ yrs but coding is serious work and companies aren’t going to pay for almost good.

What do you mean, companies are already paying for almost good. Coding is indeed serious work and not even Fable is good enough for serious work.

It would be very funny if the UK were to put export controls on Gemini 3.5 Pro.

If the US gov does try to limit all frontier models from being used outside the US, I wonder how that would go with Google and Deepmind?

There is also Poolside (France/America) and Aleph Alpha (Germany).