So GPT 5.6 tomorrow, then?
GPT 5.6 is today
With 5.5 being ahead of 4.7 and 4.8 being a “modest” update, and 5.6 being the first update on a new pre-train, this will be an interesting matchup!
Claude Opus 4.8
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Dead internet theory.
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#73I generated pelicans riding bicycles on both thinking level low and thinking level high:
https://gist.github.com/simonw/68560eddb0b268a8417f80ceb7304...
The high one is notably better - the bicycle frame is the correct shape, unlike thinking level low.
For comparison, here's Opus 4.7: https://gist.github.com/simonw/afcb19addf3f38eb1996e1ebe749c...
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#74Can anyone else see these X.Y updates aren't meeting the outrageous AI expectations that we were told we would see just a year ago?
The casual release of Opus 4.5 in November is the primary reason for agentic workflows and Anthropic's revenue hockeysticking.
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#76> One of the most prominent improvements in Opus 4.8 is its honesty Anthropic talks about their own models as if they're discovering new species in the wild...
Like anthropomorphism is literally in the company name… i recall reading this book as a teenager.. it does seem apt in the world to come. https://www.amazon.com/Faces-Clouds-New-Theory-Religion/dp/0...
> anthropomorphism is literally in the company name
No it's not... "anthropos" just means "human" in ancient Greek. "Anthropic" means "relating to humans", as in human oriented AI or AI designed with humans in mind.
"Anthropomorphic" means "human shaped".
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#77A rambling comment:
I think this is the first time we've had a third minor version bump on a frontier Anthropic model. (I count the 0.5s as major here, because they've been issued non-sequentially and also corresponded to massive capability leaps, eg, Sonnet 3.5, Opus 4.5).
So now the Opus 4.5 family has successors 4.6, 4.7, and 4.8, each posting fairly modest claimed gains. My own experience w/ 4.6 and 4.7 are that I don't firmly grasp any capabilities improvements over my memory of 4.5, but it's all so fuzzy that it's truly difficult to tell.
Maybe my own tastes are saturated now (it's smarter than me?) and I'll never again perceive model progress. Maybe the incrementalism is such that I'd notice immediately if my 4.7 workflows were redirected now to 4.5.
Difficult spot for the labs to be in because, if they have a stronger product, I'd prefer they release it and that I can use it.
But as this dynamic continues, the improvements are going to be less and less legible for end-users, who will complain about the churn-without-payoff, even when the payoff may actually be real.
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#78so it is worse than gpt 5.5 for coding?
The question is: is it still worse than GPT 5.4?
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#79Obligatory pelican riding on bicycle svg: https://www.svgviewer.dev/s/UMkuTLdp Not half bad!
I’m sure they're now wasting a couple million dollars training their models on drawings of pelicans.
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#80> As always, we ran a detailed alignment assessment on the model before release. In terms of positive traits, our Alignment team concluded that Opus 4.8 “reaches new highs on our measures of prosocial traits like supporting user autonomy and acting in the user’s best interest.” The assessment also showed Opus 4.8 to have rates of misaligned behavior (such as deception or cooperation with misuse) that are substantiall…
Deception is not ideal for agentic coding.