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GPT 5.6 Sol is the best "vision" model OpenAI ever released

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Re: GPT 5.6 Sol is the best "vision" model OpenAI ever released

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Anecdotal, opinion: Gpt is really good in vision stuff, or at least their MoE seems to be really cohesive. From my experience Claude models can be really good at language but the moment they need to look at a picture and decide why the design is not good what parts need improvement it degrades a lot. My easiest benchmark is giving them a screenshot of a feature in my app and tell it "identify non-normative UI blocks…

What is a "non-normative UI block"?

areas that look weird

Re: GPT 5.6 Sol is the best "vision" model OpenAI ever released

#24
I agree. It did very well on an extremely challenging task.

I asked it to recognize and draw the very faint reflection of what I was wearing, visible in only a tiny black part of a very brightly lit poster behind glass.

In addition, the poster itself also happened to contain similar clothing.

You can see the reference images and its output in my writeup here: https://medium.com/@rviragh/gpt-5-6-sol-very-good-image-reco...

While a human can focus on the reflection easily, this is an enormous challenge for a vision model. It's very impressive.

Re: GPT 5.6 Sol is the best "vision" model OpenAI ever released

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post #3

Anecdotal, opinion: Gpt is really good in vision stuff, or at least their MoE seems to be really cohesive. From my experience Claude models can be really good at language but the moment they need to look at a picture and decide why the design is not good what parts need improvement it degrades a lot. My easiest benchmark is giving them a screenshot of a feature in my app and tell it "identify non-normative UI blocks…

What is a "non-normative UI block"?

Segments of the UI that don't conform to any other existing established design or conventions

Re: GPT 5.6 Sol is the best "vision" model OpenAI ever released

#27
I understand why you would like to use an LLM for vision. I do it myself often enough. I don't understand however, why the pill detection and counting is included in this benchmark. That is a task which you would perform with OpenCV right?

In my personal mini benchmark minicpm-v-4.6 scores amazingly well. Its a 0.8B model which runs fine on many consumer hardware.

Re: GPT 5.6 Sol is the best "vision" model OpenAI ever released

#28
All of your use cases are very advanced.

I recently used it at grocery stores in a foreign country. Photographed the whole aisle and told it to find Y (detergent, softener, glue, sour cream, whatever), at the same time recommend the best Y for whatever reason. Worked marvelously, including the cases where the object wasn't present and it told me there was nothing useful.

I asked then, can you crop the exact image of how does the item look like and where is it in the aisle - did that perfectly as well.

I will add that all frontier models were fine with such tasks from the early 2024's.

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