"Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half." -John Wanamaker
This applies even more strongly to model choosing. I know for a fact that majority of my work doesn't require a very strong model, but separating the trivial and non-trivial tasks is a famously hard problem (if at all decidable).
in_a_society 2 hours ago [-]
I don't see why it should be all that difficult. All you have to do is first find a library that implements a decent solution to the halting problem and you're off to the races.
njcornell 42 minutes ago [-]
You can use my script p-noteq-np.sh too if that helps.
fractorial 2 hours ago [-]
Cosmically apt username given the substance of this comment.
carimura 2 hours ago [-]
Exactly. I haven't reached the "let 1000 agents bloom" mode yet, so currently I'm spending real headspace managing agents doing work, and that work is all important, so why "settle" for sub-frontier models for that work? Maybe I'll get there for non-coding work.
pimeys 1 hours ago [-]
If you have agents and users, you can run evals and see how far the models go. Luna is not greatest in tool calls, but if you define your problem well and the tools well, it is comparable to Gemini 4 Flash with much lower price tag.
satvikpendem 60 minutes ago [-]
Luna is good as an end user model for simple tasks like classification, but not as a coding model. Also do you mean Gemini 3.6 Flash? 4 doesn't exist, and Gemma 4 exists but doesn't have a Flash option.
throw2ih020 2 hours ago [-]
> separating the trivial and non-trivial tasks is a famously hard problem (if at all decidable).
Famously, this is also a problem for human coders in sprint planning.
HN could be run as a BBS on 70's hardware. Instead of using a CPU with ~10 thousand transistors, you're likely using one with ~10 billion to do basically the same thing, and you don't think twice about it.
londons_explore 1 hours ago [-]
I get frustrated with a poor quality model leaving my codebase littered with wrong comments, which then later trip up smarter models.
hellojimbo 2 hours ago [-]
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odiroot 2 hours ago [-]
You just need a very strong frontier model to do triage of your tasks.
/s
wmf 1 hours ago [-]
That's not necessarily a joke; the article proposes exactly that.
preommr 3 hours ago [-]
> Starting today, GPT‑5.6 Luna, our fastest and most affordable model, will cost 80% less,
I don't have the words.
I genuinely thought we were in a stage where we were plateauing and going in for 5-10% improvements over months. Seeing spikes like this makes me question about where the floor really is.
jpadkins 2 hours ago [-]
When model intelligence reliably hits 90%-95% of current day knowledge worker tasks, they are going to burn those weight to silicon and we will see another 10X improvement in price/performance frontier.
The dynamic GPU clusters will be used for the 5% of tasks, and pushing out the frontier. Also there will be a set of knowledge tasks that are not done today (because they are too difficult for most knowledge workers), that will start being done in the future.
jrflo 2 hours ago [-]
Burning the weights into silicon would be many orders of magnitude increase, not just 10x. It's kind of crazy that this hockey stick the AI hype bros talk about seems more and more every day like it might be real
jaggederest 2 hours ago [-]
https://taalas.com/ has done it already for a wildly obsolete model. 14000 tokens per second.
https://chatjimmy.ai/ is their interactive. Tiny context, very dumb, but absurdly fast. Imagine this as a tool call for claude code for trivial changes - the tool call from the harness takes longer than the execution.
christophilus 4 minutes ago [-]
Wow. This is absolutely wild. I didn't expect that.
If we get to anywhere near this speed for the equivalent of the current models... I don't even know what to think about that future.
ElijahLynn 1 hours ago [-]
Wow! You weren't kidding,
I just tried it too and 14,098 tokens in .05 seconds, I barely blinked and it was done. There was no typing at all appearing on the screen. It just showed up.
That link isn't bringing up your chat, FYI. It just shows the default new chat state.
iamjackg 2 hours ago [-]
Holy crap, I was not prepared for how fast it responded. I just wrote "Just wanted to see how fast you are! Can you write me a quick story about a tiger who lives inside a block of cheese the size of a house?"
I pressed Enter, and the response was instant.
> Generated in 0.037s • 14,205 tok/s
This is unbelievable.
jcul 1 hours ago [-]
It's crazy.
Are they doing any precomputing as you type, I wonder if you paste a block of text is it the same speed.
nerdsniper 1 hours ago [-]
I pasted and instantly hit enter on this prompt: "I generated a filter set using REW v5.31.3 using real-world sweep tone measurements from the room I'm listening in . How can I use it as my MacOS output equalizer so that my spotify music is adjusted for this room and speakers"
and it gave a very reasonable answer in non-perceptible time.
throwuxiytayq 1 hours ago [-]
No, it really does take ~0.03s to generate the answer. Try your browser's developer tools and watch the requests.
8cvor6j844qw_d6 1 hours ago [-]
I'd like to imagine the things that can be done with this speed and the current frontier models.
ElijahLynn 60 minutes ago [-]
Truth, it feels like we're in the dial-up age of LLMs right now. And this Jimmy AI is fiber.
Dig1t 1 hours ago [-]
Seriously, if Fable or even Opus was this fast that would be a real game changer.
HDThoreaun 1 hours ago [-]
For what its worth the frontier lab models can surely be a lot faster if they wanted them to be but theyre supply constrained so theyre doing stuff like multi tenancy. Since you cant self host them no one outside the labs really knows speed as a solo tenant
FuriouslyAdrift 43 minutes ago [-]
Yep it will be ASICs and DSPs all over again. Orders of magnitude changes.
monkeydust 19 minutes ago [-]
So which shovels companies are the ones to watch for burnt in silicon models ?
FuriouslyAdrift 5 minutes ago [-]
Imagine the price of a $9 million NVL72 dropped to about $100, used 4 orders of magnitude less power, was the size of ARM cpu, be bundled with pretty much any electronic device, and ran as fast a frontier AI is today.
That's about how disrupting DSPs were to the industries they arose out of (over a very long time frame).
How would that disrupt the industry?
Yopolo 1 hours ago [-]
And don't underestimate how much money Google, Microsoft, Amazon and Meta still have to spend on this tech.
Blocking Fable for sure made it very politicl a lot sooner than i expected it to happen.
and because China already has massive problems of getting access, they are pushing it on hardware too like what Huawai did without EUV.
It seems China is already able to do DUV a lot sooner than others expected.
re-thc 1 hours ago [-]
> It seems China is already able to do DUV a lot sooner than others expected.
That's the media and in particular US KOLs of all sorts driving the wrong impression of China and other places. China and many other places for example have fast public transport that the US doesn't and can't even imagine today. They're not behind.
China's DUV still isn't that production grade (mass produce-able) so don't get that hyped up the wrong way (in a different direction).
The whole China-is-behind with tech and in particular semi wasn't that they can't. The truth is they spent decades in internal politics and corruption. That all got solved with the bans, so thank the bans! Jensen even said the bans were bad.
coffeebeqn 1 hours ago [-]
What does that mean though? Like some kind of a ROM memory ?
bob1029 51 minutes ago [-]
Stacked ROM can, in theory, be a lot denser than anything that depends on a capacitor and refresh cycle.
I don't think it would be that difficult to manufacture compared to other process tech. HBM is really hard to do compared to other memory types.
re-thc 2 hours ago [-]
> When model intelligence reliably hits 90%-95% of current day knowledge worker tasks, they are going to burn those weight to silicon
Google is already working on a similar idea but more "flexible".
kridsdale1 44 minutes ago [-]
Explain.
jmb99 4 minutes ago [-]
I'm not who you responded to and I don't have any info on Google. Nor can I explain in detail due to NDAs. But multiple major players are working on something along the lines of what the parent is alluding to.
The "edge" AI landscape (in particular, what you can do with ~5W) is going to be nuts in about 18 months.
captainbland 3 hours ago [-]
To be fair we don't really know in terms of prices what's real and what's just investor subsidised attempts at market capture at this point. It could well be OpenAI's attempt to drown Anthropic while they've got the halo product if they feel they've got deeper pockets.
w29UiIm2Xz 2 hours ago [-]
Enterprises implemented spending caps and inference providers are lowering prices. Seems they are jockeying for market share.
FuriouslyAdrift 33 minutes ago [-]
Partnerships then consolidation comes next...
minraws 2 hours ago [-]
I wouldn't be surprised if they still had some margins since cheaper models are much harder to nail the accurate sizes off, and you still pay 2x for 1M context window.
But if this is even at 400B size it's insanity those inference prices, maybe 10-20% margins, if it's higher I would like to know is it their own chips or maybe they have accurately sized the model to fit on exactly a B300?
Could be a lot of magical things we can only speculate, but from here there likely isn't another 60-70% margin, like I have heard people claim, I would definitely be willing to bet on that.
Could still be a healthy 10-30% margin. Especially with Terra.
platinumrad 3 hours ago [-]
We can guess based on the decisions of other inference providers who serve these models.
handfuloflight 2 hours ago [-]
Do you mean if other providers will cut their prices in turn?
platinumrad 2 hours ago [-]
Yes. For example, third-party inference providers serve DeepSeek V4 Flash just as cheaply as DeepSeek themselves, if not even more so. This is very strong evidence that the low price of the model is not subsidized.
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foobar_______ 2 hours ago [-]
Hard to believe numbers. I don't mean that as a critique, but literally I am so impressed. Even if the model is a few percent lower for performance but is 80+% cheaper than competitors and is a US company hosted on US based hyperscaler clouds this is kind of a no brainer. Hard for most businesses to justify otherwise.
rpdillon 2 hours ago [-]
This is exactly the model that DeepSeek V4 Flash followed, and it's been insanely successful as a result, even though it's not frontier.
ignoramous 1 hours ago [-]
DeepSeek v4 Pro & MiMo v2.5 Pro (Opus 4.6 quality models for code) are insanely cheap for agent-driven work due to their super low cached-input prices ($0.0036/mtok) [0]. For Luna, the cached-input price drop isn't disclosed in TFA, but the pricing page puts it at $0.02/mtok, & that's 5x more expensive.
[0] I am constantly surprised how much work pay-as-you-go with DeepSeek / MiMo will get done. I've barely crossed $2 each in a month of use (~200m tokens).
computerex 1 hours ago [-]
Absolutely. Although DeepSeek started announcing "Peak valley" pricing which started making me nervous. I have spent $50 usd in July on deepseek and for that much spend I got SO MUCH mileage.
I feel perfectly content in using pay as you go pricing with deepseek. On the other hand, although Anthropic's models used to be my bread and butter for personal work, they are simply too expensive to reach for these days.
ismailmaj 2 hours ago [-]
it's 80% less cost, not 80% in efficiency gains, could be that Luna was overpriced to begin with, we don't have much info on the models themselves.
Assuming the efficiency gains are real, I feel like something has to give, maybe worse quality due to aggressive quantization/kv cache compression?
heisgone 2 hours ago [-]
Let's suppose each models was subsidized at 70%, so that we only pay 30% of the cost. They would loose much more money per token on the more powerful models. It's in their interest to encourage the use of the less expensive models. Let's say they increase Luna subsidies at 90%. They would still "save" relative to the use of the more expensive models.
mlinsey 2 hours ago [-]
High-performing open weight models being released recently, and your customers looking into working with multiple providers as a result, are a great reason to drop prices on your non-frontier offerings.
Although I'm sure there are some efficiency gains, the technology is too new and labs are scrambling to release too quickly to think that the low-hanging optimization fruit has been picked already.
dannyw 2 hours ago [-]
Been using OpenAI models since ada/babbage/curie/davinci and at least from my own experience, their APIs feel the same.
If you use Codex it's different, the harness has a lot to do with it and there's definitely been changes including recently.
axus 2 hours ago [-]
Something can be overpriced and still lose money.
Yopolo 2 hours ago [-]
5-10% over months would still be quite crazy.
But yeah I do'nt want to know what Kimi 3 is pushing buttons inside Anthropic, OpenAI and Google.
Besides any floor: For every year the tokens get faster and cheaper, we will see new things like properly working AI factories which mimic expert teams. A lot more parallism as well.
827a 2 hours ago [-]
Vera Rubin will be hitting racks very soon, and this is purported to have a 10x improvement in token throughput per megawatt. Of course, old chips don't get replaced with new chips overnight, but I don't think we're anywhere near the floor yet.
FuriouslyAdrift 25 minutes ago [-]
AMD MI400 series is already shipping to customers (basically everybody) and it is crazy fast (8x to 10x faster than the previous gen and beats published Vera numbers in FP8, loses in FP4) and 432 GB per chip. 72 chip unified rack architecture (Helios) already shipping and projected to also beat Vera in NVL72.
MI500 series is supposedly already taping out and they're claiming massive increases (we'll find out end of 2027 prob).
cousinbryce 1 hours ago [-]
In a data center that is power constrained but not space constrained they could build out new racks and flip the power from the old racks. Wonder if this will lead to moderately used server GPUs on the secondary market someday.
Yopolo 1 hours ago [-]
I don't think they overengineered a DC like this.
Besides Nvidia Hardware is still sold out and super expensive. Not a single Nvidia consumer GPU got cheaper at all, Nvidia DGX Spark got more expensive too.
It will be swooped of the market the second it hits the market.
gentlewater 3 hours ago [-]
This is gonna put Sonnet 5 in a really awkward spot.
By benchmarks, which sadly is a poor measure. Yes Luna is a good model under certain circumstances. Whether it is great for general usage is another story. Sonnet is definitely better when prompts are more vague and it needs to decide things. Luna generally sticks to things very strictly and goes off in bad ways.
mediaman 2 hours ago [-]
Yes but there is a big, big market for subagents to consume lots of tokens cheaply and condense information up to parent agents. Luna would not be my choice for planning. But an explorer to comb through a codebase to find relevant parts? Or for enterprise retrieval, where it needs to search across many different types of data to see where to focus efforts for a smarter model? Or to wake up periodically to evaluate some conditions and determine if a bigger model should be spun up? Definitely.
I've previously found flash (for all the hate it gets) to be good for these kinds of things. Haiku was fine but it's ancient.
re-thc 2 hours ago [-]
> Yes but there is a big, big market for subagents to consume lots of tokens cheaply and condense information up to parent agents.
That's again not some "intelligence factor" here. Different agents work for different use cases. Luna wins some. Terra wins some. Sonnet wins some. Flash was really good at exploring.
So I'm not sure what your point is? There's a big market for everything. Even within the market you describe it's likely not a Luna-size fits all either.
Philip-J-Fry 23 minutes ago [-]
In my real world use Luna is as useful to me as Sonnet. And it gets stuff done faster and follows my instructions more closely.
3836293648 2 hours ago [-]
Anthropic basically downgraded all their tiers when they released Mythos, no nah, Sonnet 5 is the successor to Haiku 4.x
baq 2 hours ago [-]
I use sonnet as a smart grep and haiku never and that’s only when I have to use Anthropic at all
bakugo 2 hours ago [-]
Sonnet and Haiku were already in an awkward spot, likely by design.
Anthropic's big marketing push this year has been entirely focused on getting people to use Opus via a Claude Code subscription, to the point that Sonnet is almost viewed as the poor man's alternative, and from what I've seen, almost nobody uses it.
Actually, here's an interesting project for all the vibe coders looking for their next front page post: scrape a ton of commits from GitHub with Co-Authored-By: Claude and figure out what the percentage split between Opus/Fable/Sonnet is. I'm willing to bet it's less than 10% Sonnet.
supern0va 2 hours ago [-]
>figure out what the percentage split between Opus/Fable/Sonnet is.
This may be misleading, since I suspect many are using a blend through sub-agents. I tend to bias for Fable to orchestrate and Opus for implementation via sub-agents.
StilesCrisis 2 hours ago [-]
When I'm paying for it, Sonnet. When work is paying, Opus 5, then Fable if Opus gets confused.
petesergeant 2 hours ago [-]
Opus 5 is not strong enough as the top-of-stack model, and feels idiotic after a week or two of heavy Fable usage, to the point where I'm paying for Usage Credits to keep using Fable rather than having to slum it with Opus.
solarkraft 2 hours ago [-]
They have no (other) equivalent to nano, so it makes sense that it’s much cheaper now. It may have been better, but it was also hell of a lot more expensive.
arjunchint 1 hours ago [-]
more like they were facing pressure from chinese models, and dropped prices and now their margins are squeezed
WarmWash 2 hours ago [-]
Totally possible that humans aren't actually that intelligent.
ceroxylon 2 hours ago [-]
As well as the existing intelligence being swayed by emotions, hormones, circadian rhythms, stress, peer pressure, propaganda, and survival instincts.
afry1 1 hours ago [-]
As if ALL OF THAT doesn't represent inherent and crucial elements of judgement, and therefore"intelligence" itself.
We are not purely rational creatures, thank God. Sometimes those "limiting factors" you listed -- stress, peer pressure, hormones -- are crucial elements of informing the problem solving process and arriving at a decision or a solution that actually works.
All an LLM can do is fulfill a prompt, no matter how misguided, backwards, or incomplete that prompt actually was.
"Go jump off a bridge." Hmm. Dying makes me stressed out. I'm not gonna do that.
customguy 1 hours ago [-]
That's a bit like saying a tail is swayed by a dog, as if it could exist without one, or would have anything to do if it did.
subw00f 2 hours ago [-]
Why does it matter? This is completely based on data produced by humans.
re-thc 2 hours ago [-]
> Seeing spikes like this makes me question about where the floor really is.
You mean they increased the price and then cut it back and now it is amazing?
Luna had a price hike vs mini (its previous replacement). The cut now just puts it back in that ball park.
Not that this isn't good news, but what's impressive?
zzleeper 1 hours ago [-]
Had to ctrl+f for someone saying this.
I typically do lots of mini calls for research (100s of millions or something in that ball park). Newer models made that absolutely impossible, and the fact that the older ones are starting to get deprecated made me switch to e.g. deepseek for some of my runs. We'll see if I move back after this.
aesthesia 34 minutes ago [-]
Luna's now cheaper than 5.4-nano (for output tokens). That's a significant improvement.
camel-cdr 2 hours ago [-]
this type of thing usually means you are the product
mediaman 2 hours ago [-]
I don't see how this follows. The cost of nails has fallen by 95% over the last century. It's because the cost of manufacturing has fallen. Not because they are selling the information of nail consumers.
Tokens are not normal software, because they have marginal cost, and I think people who are used to software economics really struggle with this. With token generation there really can be manufacturing cost efficiencies where one producer is just straight up better at serving product at a lower marginal cost.
paytonjjones 2 hours ago [-]
According to https://deepswe.datacurve.ai/, Luna at Max at it's previous cost was comparable in both performance and cost to Sol at High.
With an 80% reduction in cost that becomes a ridiculous outlier in efficiency.
visiondude 2 hours ago [-]
there is a ton of downward price pressure from Chinese open weight models
Der_Einzige 35 minutes ago [-]
Until I stop getting downvoted for asserting that these guys are profitable per token, HN is going to continue being pikau face shocked at easily predictable things that any serious AI researcher would tell you, and has been telling you for years now!!!
buckle8017 3 hours ago [-]
They over purchased hardware.
This is very likely priced below recovering the cost of the hardware but still above operating expenses.
infecto 2 hours ago [-]
What evidence is there?
I have no idea either way but one thing that detracts from these threads is folks claiming things as a fact without evidence.
paxys 2 hours ago [-]
That’s ridiculous. Every major AI lab is compute constrained. That’s exactly why nvidia is worth trillions today. If OpenAI had a single extra GPU they’d be using it to run another training cycle or experiment for their next model.
qntmfred 2 hours ago [-]
sama literally just said they wish they had bought more. the price drops are almost certainly due to good old fashioned hardware innovation (wafer scale with cerebras) and optimizing hardware development based on model architecture and inference costs. other inference providers will try to do the same if they can.
Making Luna, which was already very cheap and extremely capable, 5x cheaper is crazy. I use Sol at work but Luna at home, and while there's definitely a difference, it doesn't feel like night-and-day. After a year of ever-increasing prices it suddenly feels (between this, Kimi K3, GLM 5.2) that prices are falling again.
jedberg 3 hours ago [-]
> Sol vs Luna
> it doesn't feel like night-and-day.
I see what you did there. :)
deklesen 2 hours ago [-]
Good observation! Kudos
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oh_no 11 minutes ago [-]
I pretty strongly disagree about comparing this to Kimi and GLM, 5.2 was a big price hike for Chinese models, and Kimi K3 was a big price hike to that. K3 was within spitting distance of OpenAI pricing (more expensive than short context Terra, less than long context). And that's after months of OpenAI/Anthropic prices going up.
Now we have an American lab drastically cutting a price, feels like this is the opposite of that trend.
pioneer37 2 hours ago [-]
Its just a matter of time at this point.These companies are working day and night to capture the market.
maxdo 2 hours ago [-]
is kimi that cheap? it's a very expensive model
pixelesque 2 hours ago [-]
It's cheaper currently on many of the inference providers.
Personally, I'm having surprisingly good results with DeepSeek 4 Pro at home, which is very good value for money: it's not as good as Claude / GPT 5.6 (I have Co-pilot license at work), but it's still really useful for code reviews, validating thoughts, and especially designing / writing unit tests for new (and old before refactoring) functionality.
And it's very cheap per task. (Flash is even cheaper, but I've had issues with that on more complex tasks where it starts forgetting things and arguing with itself "but wait, let me read the function again").
fy20 22 minutes ago [-]
DeepSeek V4 Pro is ridiculously priced, especially when you take into account caching. According to the DeepSeek usage panel, 50M tokens have cost me $1.38. It's not the smartest and does like to overthink, but if you have well defined problems it's good for coding. Well... except all your data going to China. I just use it for personal projects.
oh_no 10 minutes ago [-]
where are you seeing cheap Kimi? pricing I've seen is the same across the board (presumably due to licensing terms) and is in the Terra range.
mark_l_watson 26 minutes ago [-]
I toggle back and forth between deepseek v 4 flash/pro on FireWorks.ai using OpenCode. Easy to toggle, I default to flash.
subarctic 1 hours ago [-]
I tried out deepseek v4 pro via a couple providers from openrouter, and it's always getting 429s. Are you running it on your own hardware?
pixelesque 26 minutes ago [-]
I wish!!
No, I'm using it via OpenRouter in pi.dev - I just used it 30 mins ago... Providers (automatically selected): StreamLake and Baidu Qianfan.
Mashimo 26 minutes ago [-]
Works fine for me via opencode go.
dominotw 3 hours ago [-]
depends on what you are doing. if you are doing verifiable tasks like fixing bugs then any model would do as long as you write the right verification.
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simonw 3 hours ago [-]
> The kernel work helped reduce the end-to-end cost of serving the model by 20%, while its experiments increased token-generation efficiency by more than 15%.
If the cost of serving GPT-5.6 just dropped by 20%, does that add up to literally billions of dollars in savings per month?
We know Anthropic spend $1.25 billion renting inference capacity from SpaceX (in two Colossus datacenters) from the SpaceX IPO, but we don't know how much of Anthropic's inference capacity that is (presumably a small fraction, since they were operating on top of AWS and other providers before the SpaceX deal.)
I've not seen any numbers that hint at OpenAI's per-month inference bill, but surely that has to be in the multiple billions of dollars as well.
So 20% is a really, really big deal.
NitpickLawyer 3 hours ago [-]
~2 years ago gemini2.5 helped write better kernes for itself and (only) reached 1% efficiency gains. Today we're at 20%.
magicalist 19 minutes ago [-]
If you optimize program A and manage to wring out a 1% improvement, and I optimize program B and improve performance by 20%, you can see the problem with trying to infer anything from those two numbers.
Edit: searching for the story now, further bolstering the point is that was 1% in training time [1], and the openAI claim is 20% in end to end inference cost. This is a bad comparison.
In 2 years from now we will be at 400%. https://xkcd.com/605/
Also, it is called kernels (you have nitpick in your username)
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dominotw 3 hours ago [-]
imagine writing that on your resume
> reduced inference cost by 20 percent saving company x billion dollars per month
paxys 2 hours ago [-]
Where are you going to apply to with that resume that’s a step up from your current job though?
petesergeant 2 hours ago [-]
The other place, but for more money
bpavuk 2 hours ago [-]
lots of places, actually. not everyone wants to be attached to the Silicon Valley culture, and that line alone will guarantee practically any workplace. that person is going to find out what work-life balance is :)
paxys 2 hours ago [-]
Sure, but those places don’t need such lofty resumes to begin with.
speed_spread 1 hours ago [-]
With the right kind of credentials, it's not about need, it's about want. Flip the roles and let yourself become an object of desire, an aspirational hire.
tekacs 3 hours ago [-]
In this case, and I don't mean this critically, I guess it would technically be, "Instructed model to find efficiencies... reducing inference cost by 20% saving company x billion dollars per month."
I have no doubt that further work was required to enable this, but it's still very cool to be possible to say that.
andai 2 hours ago [-]
I think they meant that GPT-5.6-Sol can write that on its resume.
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da_grift_shift 3 hours ago [-]
Does the model get the credit for its promo packet then? :^)
hirako2000 3 hours ago [-]
Contributed to. Can't be some IC who made a few nice PRs
kridsdale1 39 minutes ago [-]
Why not. Jeff Dean and John Carmack exist. Both are L10 SWEs.
bob1029 2 hours ago [-]
This feels like the dialup->broadband transition to me.
I was already a huge proponent of Luna for things like deep research. Being able to run 5x more for the same cost is simply bananas. We are already running 10 parallel agents for hypothesis generation. I cannot imagine 50. The statistics become much more interesting & powerful when you can run so many samples of the exact same prompt+model without breaking the bank.
Imanari 2 hours ago [-]
How do you run 'deep research'?
dannyw 2 hours ago [-]
Deep research is basically a LLM with web search, and a "work really hard" goal-orientated prompt, and some output formatting suggestions.
kridsdale1 42 minutes ago [-]
And self forking fan out.
cg5280 37 minutes ago [-]
It's a feature offered in ChatGPT and other platforms, though probably gated behind paid subscriptions.
fy20 13 minutes ago [-]
Used to be part of the $20/mo plan but it's not anymore (not sure if they removed it completely). However GPT-5.6 is pretty good at researching if you prompt it right, I've regularly had it spend 5+ minutes researching topic with lots of web searches.
jrflo 2 hours ago [-]
Very interesting. Can you share more about your hypothesis/research pipeline? I have been using Sol for those types of task because I figured you'd need more reasoning for getting good ideas, but maybe quantity > quality at a certain point?
bob1029 2 hours ago [-]
Here is a rough approximation of the pipeline I use:
Phase 1 - Run X copies of Luna in parallel over the user's prompt. The purpose is to generate a diverse set of hypotheses.
Phase 2 - Run Y copies of Terra in parallel to investigate the hypothesis results, with each receiving them in a randomized order.
Phase 3 - Run 1 copy of Sol over investigation reports.
The goal is to ensure that the agent covers more initial starting points before presenting a final conclusion. If you only run a single copy of Sol and it hooks onto something wrong, it might not recover.
eevmanu 28 minutes ago [-]
How do you run this phases and parallelization on each?
Via just ... "prompting it"?
Or do you use any tool in the middle to ensure this agent architecture?
Just curious if there is any workflow-like tool in the middle that is helping.
andai 2 hours ago [-]
Do you have a sense of which tasks benefit from more agents and which don't?
bob1029 2 hours ago [-]
Anything related to reading and interpreting the environment seems to always benefit from the addition of more agents to the search party, assuming you have some rational way to synthesize their results.
Taking actions that mutate the environment is a different story. I think this is where you run into diminishing returns very quickly. You generally want one strong agent to act given the results of all the searching that was done. If the plan is clear, you don't need a genius model to execute it.
handfuloflight 2 hours ago [-]
I definitely think you want the genius model to synthesize everything that rolls up to them.
andai 39 minutes ago [-]
I think this is an unsolved problem. The most interesting thing I saw here is the Recursive Language Models paper.
This is why in your brain you have trillion threads processing and summarizing sensor data (immutable functions), but a SINGLE thread of “execution” which we call the conscious soul.
__jl__ 2 hours ago [-]
Didn't expect that. Luna pricing is crazy now. I don't think there is anything on the market that competes at this price-performance point.
For our production app, OpenAI clearly is the best provider now. Their API is very reliable and has many nice features. The price-performance of the model lineup is incredible. We used open weights model via Fireworks for a long time (e.g. Kimi K2.5). Fireworks is a great provider but we still ran into issues here and there (Same with Anthropic and Google). OpenAI just works, is fast and in my view has a better price-performance ratio across almost all levels of intelligence.
dannyw 2 hours ago [-]
OpenAI's APIs are extremely reliable for sure. I don't even remember when the last incident or downtime was.
amluto 1 hours ago [-]
This doesn’t quite count as “API”, but OpenAI’s roll out of OAuth device code authentication was poor, to say the least.
I was still using GLM-5.2 in my personal projects, but this just made Luna a very easy choice.
qingcharles 1 hours ago [-]
Hasn't OpenRouter had Luna and Terra on 50% off sale since they launched? I wonder what will happen to that.
quirino 24 minutes ago [-]
It's still 50% off apparently. Listed as $0.10 for input (original price was $1.0 without this reduction or sale)
hattimaTim 2 hours ago [-]
The official doc says, Luna = Previous Nano models, kind of. Is it really good at coding?
PhilippGille 2 hours ago [-]
Depends on the reasoning effort, see https://deepswe.datacurve.ai (add Luna via model selection drop down, if it's not shown by default)
hattimaTim 2 hours ago [-]
Thanks for the link!
paxys 2 hours ago [-]
Smaller models are great if you are doing targeted changes in existing codebases. Don’t expect to use it for creating complex architecture from scratch or do major refactors. The larger the context, the greater the drop off will be.
quirino 2 hours ago [-]
According to the link I mentioned above it's roughly as good as GPT-5.4. Haven't tried it in practice yet.
I bet it must be better in some contexts and worse in others.
archon1410 44 minutes ago [-]
If Luna is so good and cheap, I'm wondering why ChatGPT Free users still only have access to GPT 5.5 Instant. The API pricing for chat-latest is the same as Sol(!),[1] while Luna is 25× cheaper [2]. Even assuming highly inflated API pricing for chat-latest, Luna not being the daily driver on Free and Go plans feels off.
Perhaps users prefer instant responses over thinking models so much so that using a more expensive and less performant non-thinking model is worthwhile.
I bet they'll switch over pretty soon. They always make free users use the older models for a little bit, probably to try to push people to upgrade.
You can actually use Luna without reasoning (set it to "none"). So if they wanted to, they could definitely replace 5.5 Instant with it.
archon1410 56 seconds ago [-]
Good points. Though GPT 5.5 Instant does beat out 5.6 Luna non-thinking 34 to 27 on Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index.[1][2] This could mean it is optimised for non-reasoning perfomance. So even if beaten on cost and performance, it could still be on the pareto frontier for speed.
It probably costs them substantial amounts of everyday to not replace Instant with Luna, making it less likely the amount of people upgrading just for Luna would be enough to offset the costs.
80% price cut for luna is a very aggressive pricing move
makes it by far the best choice for most workloads that do not need bleeding edge intelligence (reminder: luna can be comparable to opus 5!)
heaney-555 2 hours ago [-]
Luna is meant to compete with Haiku. What tasks are you seeing it equal Opus on?
dannyw 1 hours ago [-]
You'd be surprised at what Luna can do, especially on xhigh or max. It's capable of working overnight, usually productively, just like Sol.
Haiku 4.5, on the other hand, is comparable to performance to Gemma4 31B (with working tool call formatting) in my experience, and Gemma4 strongly wins on vision and multimodal.
newtwilly 2 hours ago [-]
According to the Artificial Analysis benchmark graph in the article, Luna can now outperform Sonnet 5 and Opus 5 low at ~4-10x less cost
euazOn 2 hours ago [-]
Per Artificial Analysis:
- Haiku: 30 points
- Luna Medium/High/Xhigh/Max: 38/46/49/51 points
That's a massive difference:
- 30 points is Gemma 4 31B territory
- 50 points is GLM-5.2 (744B) territory.
tosh 2 hours ago [-]
luna is way better than haiku 4.5
nateb2022 2 hours ago [-]
I use Luna a lot (over 1T tokens since it came out) and I'd rank Luna (high/xhigh) on par with Sonnet 5, without hesitation.
ls_stats 34 minutes ago [-]
Is it though? I saw a noticeable difference between Sol (xhigh) and Luna (max). Sol appears to understand better my prompts, you need to be more specific/clear with Luna.
infinite_spin 15 minutes ago [-]
I've been having issues with it using unreasonable timeouts for tasks that should have failed within minutes, not hours.
ninjahawk1 2 hours ago [-]
80% less for Luna is absolutely crazy, in my opinion we may reach a point in the next year where powerful models on the API could potentially be cheaper than subscriptions. Compute just keeps decreasing in price.
HDThoreaun 1 hours ago [-]
API will never be cheaper than subs because theres a ton of value created for companies by locking people into subscriptions that tend to be sticky.
wxw 31 minutes ago [-]
> $0.20 per million input tokens and $1.20 per million output tokens for Luna
This is... ridiculously cheap. Amazing!
mark_l_watson 31 minutes ago [-]
I prepaid for a ton of DeepSeek v4 flash tokens. When I use them I would like to try purchasing Luna tokens for a while. I like cheap and fast models and since I am retired, if I waste time having to sometimes manually switch to a stronger model, that is OK with me.
pbowyer 33 minutes ago [-]
Friendly reminder that GPT-5.6 in Codex cannot spawn Luna subagents, only Terra [1]
To fix this you currently need to make your own copy of the bundled model catalog [2] and opt Luna into MultiAgent V2.
What are your use case for these? I’m manly interested in coding where more capability is better - give me a 10x model at 10x the price and I’ll take it. A worse model at very low cost has no appeal to me. At-least not for coding. Translation maybe? OCR?
Yopolo 1 hours ago [-]
Agentic layer.
Your support bot.
Your research long running bot.
Your SEO Optimizer bot.
Your incident analyser bot.
Your personal assistent bot.
wronex 1 hours ago [-]
Game play bots (monsters, commanders maybe) would be really cool. But it needs long term support and probably local AI instead.
> In a compute-constrained world where model demand is growing faster than capacity
I don't buy it.
There have been recent weeks where some of the mid-level models (Hy3, Laguna M.1) are free (true for parts of June and July, see Hy3 in Cyan) . Even then the total token usage appears to be reaching a steady-state.
^ the first graph is tokens per week across all models
I guess we just can only throw ideas at an LLM at a certain rate.
I still have ideas and now I can have an LLM vibe code what I want, but I'm not going to let an agent just run unattended for longer than a few minutes or a few bucks for hobby projects.
So maybe it is a matter of lowering the cost of an LLM so I can let it churn for hours at a cost of pennies... But I suspect demand for tokens is very price-elastic.
Yopolo 1 hours ago [-]
These are free due to some different type of reasons like Nvidida sponsoring free tokens or the model companies.
My company checks the models and pays for Opus through AWS.
You still send the WHOLE context of whatever you want to do to a random endpoint on the internet. If you want to write a good email, you give that context your email address, names, the reason for it etc.
Big companies don't randomly use some random api endpoint to do so.
Anthropics quarerly revenue is still growing very fast. I don't think we have seen even the real potenzial of it yet at all.
Not only are still a lot of countries missing which do not even use anthropic or any other frontier model yet but also all the agentic based solutions enterprise companies are currently building on mass (at least in my industry)
Der_Einzige 33 minutes ago [-]
Openrouter is not even CLOSE to the majority of tokens. I don't know where this myth came from that they account for even ~5% of total token spend! It's not true!!!!
Stop rejecting what we have been collectively telling you guys! LLM providers are profitable, and have been for awhile!
firasd 2 hours ago [-]
This is one of the things OpenAI has been focused on for an year or so that led to the doomed autoswitcher in ChatGPT .com (switching models based on estimated task complexity) that was quickly reverted
Whereas Google with Gemini 3.x, Anthropic with Fable etc are happy to just go for 'big model with dense params'
It's hard to guess from the outside of course but just this kind of talking points focus on GPU efficacy is what we see from OpenAI and Chinese open source labs more often than from Anthropic or Google Deepmind and this benchmark chart seems to concur
Phlogi 1 hours ago [-]
It's a clever strategic move: grab the market of cheap low end models within the product range. It's lower friction to switch a model than a provider.
Pesto 1 hours ago [-]
I truly wonder what kind of model is luna now.
Before I thought it was just an improved version or at least in the same class as gpt 5.4 mini but now it's being priced like a nano model!
I thought about it because Terra has similar pricing to 5.4 and Sol is similar to 5.5.
Luna was already my workhorse before, it performs very well on high/xhigh for most of the tasks, very happy about this drop.
andai 2 hours ago [-]
It says Luna is fastest, but doesn't it take way more steps to get the same job done?
This has already been updated with the new prices?
pornel 23 minutes ago [-]
The intelligence scores are absolute, not per $.
DeepSeek Pro is more capable than Luna regardless of the cost.
hugopuybareau 43 minutes ago [-]
> These lower prices for Luna and Terra are also reflected in how usage is counted against paid subscriptions
Does this seem higher or lower limits ?
Decabytes 1 hours ago [-]
Has anyone ever done a comparison between the smaller models like Luna, against the previous GPT 5 frontier models? Have we gotten to the point where the small models are as good as the frontier models of the past, or is there still a way to go?
simianwords 41 minutes ago [-]
I ran a prompt with ChatGPT since I'm also curious. The price reduction is crazy.
- GPT-5 high: score 35, approximately $0.37/task
- Luna medium: score 38, approximately $0.01/task
- Luna max: score 51, approximately $0.042/task
So Luna medium is:
- slightly more capable than GPT-5 high;
- approximately 35–40× cheaper per benchmark task.
And Luna max is:
- 16 Intelligence Index points better;
- still roughly 9× cheaper per task.
This reduction was possible within 1 year.
msejas 1 hours ago [-]
Isn't OpenAI burning billions and have billions more spending commitments? If they managed to downsize so much the cost they should have kept the price the same and become profitable, really weird move, unsure what led to this.
otherme123 60 minutes ago [-]
Slower grow, or even shrink in usage? Right now, the promise of a future "everyone will use our models and pay whatever we ask" is what keeps $$ flowing towards OpenAI.
dgellow 1 hours ago [-]
More than $650B due 2030. I don’t understand how it makes any sense that they reduce the price so much, unless they expect seriously such a massive saving and increase in demand from their latest improvements?
paxys 1 hours ago [-]
Supply demand curve is a thing. Cutting price on something does not mean you are going to make less money.
dgellow 1 hours ago [-]
But they still have to cover compute cost, and they already committed to more than $650B in infra expenses for 2035
paxys 51 minutes ago [-]
Why assume they are not already making up the compute costs for smaller models?
dgellow 41 minutes ago [-]
Enough for such a massive reduction? If yes that’s really impressive
2 hours ago [-]
incognito124 2 hours ago [-]
While I can't deny this is a huge technological result, and it's laudable they reduced the price because of it, 80% is really a lot. I can't help but wonder, is this because of the model's capabilities, or was the initial system just really sloppy? The public will probably never know the details
xendo 2 hours ago [-]
Does that also increase the token count in their subscription like ChatGPT GO?
arjunchint 1 hours ago [-]
Deepseek Flash is still much cheaper:
- lower input/output token pricing
- the cached token price is $0.0028/Million tokens, which is like 50-90% of tokens
lostmsu 25 minutes ago [-]
DeepSeek Flash is a much worse model. Even DeepSeek Pro is much worse.
kingstnap 2 hours ago [-]
Those prices on luna are killer.
Haiku was already in a ditch.
But this is coming straight for the jugular of a ton of models on openrouter.
gentlewater 3 hours ago [-]
This is awesome. I’ve recently set up my opencode to use 5.6 terra for my main agent, who delegates work to a 5.6 Luna coder agent. So far it seems to work well, and reduce costs a lot. With this price reduction, it will work a whole lot better. Perhaps I can get my github copilot quota to last the whole month now.
peheje 2 hours ago [-]
Might just resub. Will experiment with Luna next sessions.
5 h window is not working very well for me. But if I can drop down to Luna at 20-30 % left and comfortably ride out the wave then.. that might just work.
arcanemachiner 2 hours ago [-]
They got rid of the 5hr quota, it's just weekly quotas now.
gck1 2 hours ago [-]
They're supposed to bring 5h today.
sosodev 2 hours ago [-]
Looks like I might have a reason to use something other than Deepseek V4 Flash.
andai 2 hours ago [-]
I was curious so I photoshopped DSV4 Flash into the graph:
Looks like OpenAI broke the pareto frontier on the trust-me-bro benchmarks!
(One has to wonder if they used any of the neat tricks from the DSV4 paper :)
purpleidea 2 hours ago [-]
I would pay significantly more to use these models if there was a legal contract that guaranteed they weren't ever terfing them and some way to prove that.
StilesCrisis 1 hours ago [-]
What?
thehamkercat 1 hours ago [-]
nerfing*
dgellow 1 hours ago [-]
How is that economically possible? I’m so confused by those prices
anthonypasq 1 hours ago [-]
how many times do you have to be metaphorically hit in the head with a brick before you realize inference margins at api pricing were 80%+
guybedo 50 minutes ago [-]
gpt 5.6 luna was already at the intelligence/cost frontier and it's now even cheaper ...
2 hours ago [-]
fractorial 2 hours ago [-]
It would appear that rolling my own Anthropic-free harness / serving stack with a closed-weight carve out for Codex models is an absolute win.
swingboy 3 hours ago [-]
This is awesome. Luna is a pretty great model on xhigh.
jnakano89 2 hours ago [-]
Seems like they cut the tiers(GPT-5.6 Luna) where GLM and Kimi compete and still held margin for their frontier models
alvis 2 hours ago [-]
Basically lunar at extra level can cover all use cases scenarios other than those requiring opus up. Goodbye sonnet and haiku
goldsmith112 3 hours ago [-]
Not sure who would use Terra anymore. Pair Luna High/Xhigh with Sol Medium and that's your power stack
fritzo 3 hours ago [-]
Sounds reasonable. Is there a good benchmark on which make this decision?
With this new price change, Terra does look pretty Pareto’ed by Luna.
On agentic coding, pairing Sol Medium for architecting with Luna High for coding does kinda make sense. But beware that architecting can be very read-heavy, and Sol is a bit read-pricey compared to Terra.
andai 2 hours ago [-]
Sol as main agent, Luna for coding?
baalimago 2 hours ago [-]
We swapped an internal system from gpt-5-mini to gpt-5.6-luna and saw no benefit but 4x cost. Sufficed to say: we swapped back to gpt-5-mini.
gbnwl 2 hours ago [-]
Experienced similar between 5.4-mini vs 5.6-luna in our own pipelines but after spending some time on prompt optimization and testing out various reasoning effort levels 5.6-luna was well worth it. Did you just replace model selection while keeping everything else in place or spend some time on evaling with newer prompts etc?
baalimago 2 hours ago [-]
No we kept prompts as is, just swapped model. The prompt is already quite optimized for the task.
How would updating it possibly make a more intelligent model spend less tokens than a less intelligent model? Care to elaborate?
Tankenstein 1 hours ago [-]
Most of the time when upgrading models we have needed to change prompts to get the same performance (let alone better performance). Usually, your prompt is overfit to the specific model doing the specific task. For example often your previous prompt is overspecifying and creating contradictions that a dumber model would just gloss over whereas a smarter model will try even harder to follow.
steveklabnik 44 minutes ago [-]
Here is an example of a guide from OpenAI on how you should prompt 5.6 differently than their previous models.
So now presumably it'd at least be roughly equal cost, or maybe a little less?
Aboutplants 1 hours ago [-]
Your move, Anthropic
hadlock 2 hours ago [-]
Seems like they're working to destroy the local LLM argument. Right now Haiku is $1/$5 in/out. You can grind out $12,000 worth of haiku (or arguably, sonnet) class tokens in about 5 months on a Blackwell RTX 6000 96GB especially if using concurrency. BUT, but, if you use a g6e.xlarge on aws it's now more expensive than buying tokens from OpenAI @ $0.20/$1.20. It also destroys "the Mac Mini argument", pushing the ROI to ~4 years.
jrflo 2 hours ago [-]
The local LLM argument never really held water tbh. You can get surprisingly good performance for lightweight tasks locally, but you're just fighting economies of scale if you're going trying to beat a datacenter on cost.
simianwords 33 minutes ago [-]
Local LLM argument was always ideology first and never ever about economics.
bakugo 3 hours ago [-]
> GPT‑5.6 Luna, our fastest and most affordable model, will cost 80% less
Looks like the Chinese models are really making a dent. Having 3 different price categories with the "most affordable" one still costing more than GLM 5.2 never made sense.
preommr 3 hours ago [-]
I thought the chinese models were cheaper per token, but about the same or more expensive on tasks because they used more tokens for reasoning. Cutting even further, seems like a really big leap.
measurablefunc 3 hours ago [-]
It all comes back to electricity cost. China has cheaper electricity so as long as China keeps pace there is no way for American companies to undercut them. Each boolean operation in China is cheaper than the one in America.
> China: Household rates average around $0.08 / kWh (¥0.53/kWh).
vs
> US: Household rates average around $0.16 / kWh, though regional variation is massive—ranging from ~$0.10/kWh in low-cost states (like Washington or Louisiana) to $0.30–$0.45+/kWh in high-cost areas like California or Hawaii.
cbg0 2 hours ago [-]
This doesn't seem correct.
Estimated final electricity price for large industrial customers in energy-intensive industries:
I don't know, non of the chinese models I use are served from China. And they are still cheap.
simianwords 49 minutes ago [-]
There were people on HN who still thought that the API prices were being subsidised. The level of conspiracy theory was off the charts on this topic. You would get these price reductions month over month you would still have people believing in crazy stuff.
amazingamazing 15 minutes ago [-]
Link to definitive price info?
spacebacon 13 minutes ago [-]
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shevy-java 1 hours ago [-]
The milking games have started. The billionaires want their money back.
Edit: Yes, 80% minus is still milking. Because you empower these greedy mega-corporations. Just look at the RAM prices increase, then you see that the more money you give these hungry dragons, they more they will eat up. Don't get fooled by their "less cost now" advertisement.
measurablefunc 3 hours ago [-]
Model segmentation & distillation like this that asks the consumers to pick exactly which version of the algorithm will solve their problem is evidence for lack of intelligence instead of its presence.
beering 3 hours ago [-]
You really really don’t need to pick. Just use Sol on high. That’s my daily driver and I don’t touch the model picker at all.
Now, if cost is your concern, then that’s a problem in all of computing. Hence why I’m sending you short plain text messages using an iPhone with a many-core CPU and gigabytes of RAM.
dominotw 3 hours ago [-]
it is really hard to know upfront if you have fuzzy task. sometimes i would choose a cheaper model and it will spin and spin with bad outputs ending up costing more had i chosen a more capable model.
cute_boi 2 hours ago [-]
there is mixture of experts which is also another routing. So, simple change in prompt can be a big difference.
sidcool 3 hours ago [-]
They don't mention Grok at all.
andybak 3 hours ago [-]
Don Draper in the elevator meme?
hirako2000 3 hours ago [-]
Of course. All comparison is with what makes them look good.
paxys 2 hours ago [-]
They also don’t mention a hundred other models.
wilg 2 hours ago [-]
What would they say about Grok?
infinite_spin 14 minutes ago [-]
Hang on, I need to create a Twitter account so I can ask Grok
qingcharles 1 hours ago [-]
Musk announced Grok 4.6 coming next week, no idea what changes that brings or how it compares to the current 4.5.
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This applies even more strongly to model choosing. I know for a fact that majority of my work doesn't require a very strong model, but separating the trivial and non-trivial tasks is a famously hard problem (if at all decidable).
Famously, this is also a problem for human coders in sprint planning.
HN could be run as a BBS on 70's hardware. Instead of using a CPU with ~10 thousand transistors, you're likely using one with ~10 billion to do basically the same thing, and you don't think twice about it.
/s
I don't have the words.
I genuinely thought we were in a stage where we were plateauing and going in for 5-10% improvements over months. Seeing spikes like this makes me question about where the floor really is.
The dynamic GPU clusters will be used for the 5% of tasks, and pushing out the frontier. Also there will be a set of knowledge tasks that are not done today (because they are too difficult for most knowledge workers), that will start being done in the future.
https://chatjimmy.ai/ is their interactive. Tiny context, very dumb, but absurdly fast. Imagine this as a tool call for claude code for trivial changes - the tool call from the harness takes longer than the execution.
If we get to anywhere near this speed for the equivalent of the current models... I don't even know what to think about that future.
I just tried it too and 14,098 tokens in .05 seconds, I barely blinked and it was done. There was no typing at all appearing on the screen. It just showed up.
https://chatjimmy.ai/chats/01dc66a4-4b1b-4dea-bb5f-926855e37...
I pressed Enter, and the response was instant.
> Generated in 0.037s • 14,205 tok/s
This is unbelievable.
and it gave a very reasonable answer in non-perceptible time.
That's about how disrupting DSPs were to the industries they arose out of (over a very long time frame).
How would that disrupt the industry?
Blocking Fable for sure made it very politicl a lot sooner than i expected it to happen.
and because China already has massive problems of getting access, they are pushing it on hardware too like what Huawai did without EUV.
It seems China is already able to do DUV a lot sooner than others expected.
That's the media and in particular US KOLs of all sorts driving the wrong impression of China and other places. China and many other places for example have fast public transport that the US doesn't and can't even imagine today. They're not behind.
China's DUV still isn't that production grade (mass produce-able) so don't get that hyped up the wrong way (in a different direction).
The whole China-is-behind with tech and in particular semi wasn't that they can't. The truth is they spent decades in internal politics and corruption. That all got solved with the bans, so thank the bans! Jensen even said the bans were bad.
I don't think it would be that difficult to manufacture compared to other process tech. HBM is really hard to do compared to other memory types.
Google is already working on a similar idea but more "flexible".
The "edge" AI landscape (in particular, what you can do with ~5W) is going to be nuts in about 18 months.
But if this is even at 400B size it's insanity those inference prices, maybe 10-20% margins, if it's higher I would like to know is it their own chips or maybe they have accurately sized the model to fit on exactly a B300?
Could be a lot of magical things we can only speculate, but from here there likely isn't another 60-70% margin, like I have heard people claim, I would definitely be willing to bet on that.
Could still be a healthy 10-30% margin. Especially with Terra.
[0] I am constantly surprised how much work pay-as-you-go with DeepSeek / MiMo will get done. I've barely crossed $2 each in a month of use (~200m tokens).
I feel perfectly content in using pay as you go pricing with deepseek. On the other hand, although Anthropic's models used to be my bread and butter for personal work, they are simply too expensive to reach for these days.
Assuming the efficiency gains are real, I feel like something has to give, maybe worse quality due to aggressive quantization/kv cache compression?
Although I'm sure there are some efficiency gains, the technology is too new and labs are scrambling to release too quickly to think that the low-hanging optimization fruit has been picked already.
If you use Codex it's different, the harness has a lot to do with it and there's definitely been changes including recently.
But yeah I do'nt want to know what Kimi 3 is pushing buttons inside Anthropic, OpenAI and Google.
Besides any floor: For every year the tokens get faster and cheaper, we will see new things like properly working AI factories which mimic expert teams. A lot more parallism as well.
MI500 series is supposedly already taping out and they're claiming massive increases (we'll find out end of 2027 prob).
Besides Nvidia Hardware is still sold out and super expensive. Not a single Nvidia consumer GPU got cheaper at all, Nvidia DGX Spark got more expensive too.
It will be swooped of the market the second it hits the market.
Luna is an extremely strong model.
By benchmarks, which sadly is a poor measure. Yes Luna is a good model under certain circumstances. Whether it is great for general usage is another story. Sonnet is definitely better when prompts are more vague and it needs to decide things. Luna generally sticks to things very strictly and goes off in bad ways.
I've previously found flash (for all the hate it gets) to be good for these kinds of things. Haiku was fine but it's ancient.
That's again not some "intelligence factor" here. Different agents work for different use cases. Luna wins some. Terra wins some. Sonnet wins some. Flash was really good at exploring.
So I'm not sure what your point is? There's a big market for everything. Even within the market you describe it's likely not a Luna-size fits all either.
Anthropic's big marketing push this year has been entirely focused on getting people to use Opus via a Claude Code subscription, to the point that Sonnet is almost viewed as the poor man's alternative, and from what I've seen, almost nobody uses it.
Actually, here's an interesting project for all the vibe coders looking for their next front page post: scrape a ton of commits from GitHub with Co-Authored-By: Claude and figure out what the percentage split between Opus/Fable/Sonnet is. I'm willing to bet it's less than 10% Sonnet.
This may be misleading, since I suspect many are using a blend through sub-agents. I tend to bias for Fable to orchestrate and Opus for implementation via sub-agents.
We are not purely rational creatures, thank God. Sometimes those "limiting factors" you listed -- stress, peer pressure, hormones -- are crucial elements of informing the problem solving process and arriving at a decision or a solution that actually works.
All an LLM can do is fulfill a prompt, no matter how misguided, backwards, or incomplete that prompt actually was.
"Go jump off a bridge." Hmm. Dying makes me stressed out. I'm not gonna do that.
You mean they increased the price and then cut it back and now it is amazing?
Luna had a price hike vs mini (its previous replacement). The cut now just puts it back in that ball park.
Not that this isn't good news, but what's impressive?
I typically do lots of mini calls for research (100s of millions or something in that ball park). Newer models made that absolutely impossible, and the fact that the older ones are starting to get deprecated made me switch to e.g. deepseek for some of my runs. We'll see if I move back after this.
Tokens are not normal software, because they have marginal cost, and I think people who are used to software economics really struggle with this. With token generation there really can be manufacturing cost efficiencies where one producer is just straight up better at serving product at a lower marginal cost.
With an 80% reduction in cost that becomes a ridiculous outlier in efficiency.
This is very likely priced below recovering the cost of the hardware but still above operating expenses.
I have no idea either way but one thing that detracts from these threads is folks claiming things as a fact without evidence.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDB5beon4DY&t=4m20s
> it doesn't feel like night-and-day.
I see what you did there. :)
Now we have an American lab drastically cutting a price, feels like this is the opposite of that trend.
Personally, I'm having surprisingly good results with DeepSeek 4 Pro at home, which is very good value for money: it's not as good as Claude / GPT 5.6 (I have Co-pilot license at work), but it's still really useful for code reviews, validating thoughts, and especially designing / writing unit tests for new (and old before refactoring) functionality.
And it's very cheap per task. (Flash is even cheaper, but I've had issues with that on more complex tasks where it starts forgetting things and arguing with itself "but wait, let me read the function again").
No, I'm using it via OpenRouter in pi.dev - I just used it 30 mins ago... Providers (automatically selected): StreamLake and Baidu Qianfan.
If the cost of serving GPT-5.6 just dropped by 20%, does that add up to literally billions of dollars in savings per month?
We know Anthropic spend $1.25 billion renting inference capacity from SpaceX (in two Colossus datacenters) from the SpaceX IPO, but we don't know how much of Anthropic's inference capacity that is (presumably a small fraction, since they were operating on top of AWS and other providers before the SpaceX deal.)
I've not seen any numbers that hint at OpenAI's per-month inference bill, but surely that has to be in the multiple billions of dollars as well.
So 20% is a really, really big deal.
Edit: searching for the story now, further bolstering the point is that was 1% in training time [1], and the openAI claim is 20% in end to end inference cost. This is a bad comparison.
[1] https://deepmind.google/blog/alphaevolve-a-gemini-powered-co...
> reduced inference cost by 20 percent saving company x billion dollars per month
I have no doubt that further work was required to enable this, but it's still very cool to be possible to say that.
I was already a huge proponent of Luna for things like deep research. Being able to run 5x more for the same cost is simply bananas. We are already running 10 parallel agents for hypothesis generation. I cannot imagine 50. The statistics become much more interesting & powerful when you can run so many samples of the exact same prompt+model without breaking the bank.
Phase 1 - Run X copies of Luna in parallel over the user's prompt. The purpose is to generate a diverse set of hypotheses.
Phase 2 - Run Y copies of Terra in parallel to investigate the hypothesis results, with each receiving them in a randomized order.
Phase 3 - Run 1 copy of Sol over investigation reports.
The goal is to ensure that the agent covers more initial starting points before presenting a final conclusion. If you only run a single copy of Sol and it hooks onto something wrong, it might not recover.
Via just ... "prompting it"?
Or do you use any tool in the middle to ensure this agent architecture?
Just curious if there is any workflow-like tool in the middle that is helping.
Taking actions that mutate the environment is a different story. I think this is where you run into diminishing returns very quickly. You generally want one strong agent to act given the results of all the searching that was done. If the plan is clear, you don't need a genius model to execute it.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.24601
There's also a great write up here by the author:
https://alexzhang13.github.io/blog/2025/rlm/
For our production app, OpenAI clearly is the best provider now. Their API is very reliable and has many nice features. The price-performance of the model lineup is incredible. We used open weights model via Fireworks for a long time (e.g. Kimi K2.5). Fireworks is a great provider but we still ran into issues here and there (Same with Anthropic and Google). OpenAI just works, is fast and in my view has a better price-performance ratio across almost all levels of intelligence.
I was still using GLM-5.2 in my personal projects, but this just made Luna a very easy choice.
I bet it must be better in some contexts and worse in others.
Perhaps users prefer instant responses over thinking models so much so that using a more expensive and less performant non-thinking model is worthwhile.
[1] https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/models/chat-latest [2] https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/models/gpt-5.6-luna
You can actually use Luna without reasoning (set it to "none"). So if they wanted to, they could definitely replace 5.5 Instant with it.
It probably costs them substantial amounts of everyday to not replace Instant with Luna, making it less likely the amount of people upgrading just for Luna would be enough to offset the costs.
[1]https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/gpt-5-6-luna-non-reason... [2]https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/gpt-5-5-instant-05-26
makes it by far the best choice for most workloads that do not need bleeding edge intelligence (reminder: luna can be comparable to opus 5!)
Haiku 4.5, on the other hand, is comparable to performance to Gemma4 31B (with working tool call formatting) in my experience, and Gemma4 strongly wins on vision and multimodal.
- Haiku: 30 points
- Luna Medium/High/Xhigh/Max: 38/46/49/51 points
That's a massive difference:
- 30 points is Gemma 4 31B territory
- 50 points is GLM-5.2 (744B) territory.
This is... ridiculously cheap. Amazing!
To fix this you currently need to make your own copy of the bundled model catalog [2] and opt Luna into MultiAgent V2.
1. https://github.com/openai/codex/issues/32031
2. https://github.com/openai/codex/issues/32031#issuecomment-51...
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I don't buy it.
There have been recent weeks where some of the mid-level models (Hy3, Laguna M.1) are free (true for parts of June and July, see Hy3 in Cyan) . Even then the total token usage appears to be reaching a steady-state.
https://openrouter.ai/rankings#top-models
^ the first graph is tokens per week across all models
I guess we just can only throw ideas at an LLM at a certain rate.
I still have ideas and now I can have an LLM vibe code what I want, but I'm not going to let an agent just run unattended for longer than a few minutes or a few bucks for hobby projects.
So maybe it is a matter of lowering the cost of an LLM so I can let it churn for hours at a cost of pennies... But I suspect demand for tokens is very price-elastic.
My company checks the models and pays for Opus through AWS.
You still send the WHOLE context of whatever you want to do to a random endpoint on the internet. If you want to write a good email, you give that context your email address, names, the reason for it etc.
Big companies don't randomly use some random api endpoint to do so.
Anthropics quarerly revenue is still growing very fast. I don't think we have seen even the real potenzial of it yet at all.
Not only are still a lot of countries missing which do not even use anthropic or any other frontier model yet but also all the agentic based solutions enterprise companies are currently building on mass (at least in my industry)
Stop rejecting what we have been collectively telling you guys! LLM providers are profitable, and have been for awhile!
Whereas Google with Gemini 3.x, Anthropic with Fable etc are happy to just go for 'big model with dense params'
It's hard to guess from the outside of course but just this kind of talking points focus on GPU efficacy is what we see from OpenAI and Chinese open source labs more often than from Anthropic or Google Deepmind and this benchmark chart seems to concur
Before I thought it was just an improved version or at least in the same class as gpt 5.4 mini but now it's being priced like a nano model!
I thought about it because Terra has similar pricing to 5.4 and Sol is similar to 5.5.
Luna was already my workhorse before, it performs very well on high/xhigh for most of the tasks, very happy about this drop.
https://deepswe.datacurve.ai/ - (See the Agent Steps view)
Or is the output speed so much higher that it cancels out?
I don't see a lot of benchmarks that record actual time. But on AA, Sol on Low beats Luna on High for Time Per Task.
presumably it's a much bigger model
DeepSeek Pro is more capable than Luna regardless of the cost.
Does this seem higher or lower limits ?
- GPT-5 high: score 35, approximately $0.37/task
- Luna medium: score 38, approximately $0.01/task
- Luna max: score 51, approximately $0.042/task
So Luna medium is:
- slightly more capable than GPT-5 high;
- approximately 35–40× cheaper per benchmark task.
And Luna max is:
- 16 Intelligence Index points better;
- still roughly 9× cheaper per task.
This reduction was possible within 1 year.
- lower input/output token pricing
- the cached token price is $0.0028/Million tokens, which is like 50-90% of tokens
Haiku was already in a ditch.
But this is coming straight for the jugular of a ton of models on openrouter.
https://files.catbox.moe/csxl32.png
(2 cents to run AA index, score 40)
Looks like OpenAI broke the pareto frontier on the trust-me-bro benchmarks!
(One has to wonder if they used any of the neat tricks from the DSV4 paper :)
With this new price change, Terra does look pretty Pareto’ed by Luna.
On agentic coding, pairing Sol Medium for architecting with Luna High for coding does kinda make sense. But beware that architecting can be very read-heavy, and Sol is a bit read-pricey compared to Terra.
https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/guides/latest-model#p...
Looks like the Chinese models are really making a dent. Having 3 different price categories with the "most affordable" one still costing more than GLM 5.2 never made sense.
> China: Household rates average around $0.08 / kWh (¥0.53/kWh).
vs
> US: Household rates average around $0.16 / kWh, though regional variation is massive—ranging from ~$0.10/kWh in low-cost states (like Washington or Louisiana) to $0.30–$0.45+/kWh in high-cost areas like California or Hawaii.
Estimated final electricity price for large industrial customers in energy-intensive industries:
USA 50 USD/MWh
China 68 USD/MWh
https://www.iea.org/reports/electricity-2026/prices
Edit: Yes, 80% minus is still milking. Because you empower these greedy mega-corporations. Just look at the RAM prices increase, then you see that the more money you give these hungry dragons, they more they will eat up. Don't get fooled by their "less cost now" advertisement.
Now, if cost is your concern, then that’s a problem in all of computing. Hence why I’m sending you short plain text messages using an iPhone with a many-core CPU and gigabytes of RAM.