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The simpler the decision you need to make, the more readily you can just take a proposal from Fable or GPT-5.5. And now that Fable is unavailable outside the US, the choice between Opus and GPT is far from obvious. As a quick default I'd lean toward GPT.
Combined Obtainium it's easy to keep it updated. https://github.com/ImranR98/Obtainium
Sites like simonwillison.net/2025/jul/ and channels like https://www.youtube.com/@aiexplained-official also cover new model releases pretty quickly for some "out of the box thinking/reasoning" evaluations.
For me and my usage I can really only tell if I start using the new model for tasks I actually use them for.
My personal benchmark andrew.ginns.uk/merbench has full code and data on GitHub if you want a staring point!
Not great for basic users but I've had significantly more use out of it with some advanced setup.
>DeepFloyd IF works in pixel space. The diffusion is implemented on a pixel level, unlike latent diffusion models (like Stable Diffusion), where latent representations are used.
Also the threat of Pytorch can be seen when reading between the lines, especially since it's now run by a foundation and the darling of the diffusion model developments.
It's a shame that intel isn't including AVX-512 on the 13th gen Raptor Lake consumer CPUs, and the newer skews of 12th gen like the KS processors have it fused off.