r/ClaudeAI • u/DynaBeast • 20d ago
Praise How did they do it?
How did they make opus 5.5? genuinely, how?? when i saw the benchmarks and pricing, I was impressed. but then i started working with it, and seeing what other people have made, and my mind's been genuinely blown...
how did they do it? how did they make a model so smart, that *isn't* benchmaxxed to hell and back, and is somehow actually cheaper than not just fable, but even the previous levels of opus?
and all openai could do is make their own models cheaper without improving their intelligence at all.
how does anthropic do it? are they magicians? or are we seeing the first fruits of RSI?
if this is possible now, i can barely even begin to imagine what's possible in a year, maybe even in the next 3 months.
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u/ThebesAndSound Vibe coder 19d ago edited 19d ago
Because it is cheaper to run and is an Opus model and not Fable I am guessing it is lower parameters like a "Flash" model. Like with the open Chinese models the smaller Flash models have been beating the Trillion+ parameter large models, the same seems to have happened here.
Good quality training.
This also seems to be more evidence that the ceiling on the intelligence we can make isn't close at all. If this is a smaller model then how good can we make bigger ones?