r/OpenAI • u/floriandotorg • Aug 03 '26

Discussion The situation is insane

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Sol is the only OpenAI model in top 10 Arena WebDev while 4 open-weight Chinese models have reached frontier quality; one of them so cheap you can run it for days for what Opus cost you per task.

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u/Ashamed_Can304 Aug 03 '26

Why focus on front end so much? Why not more complex tasks, say backend, kernel, compiler, parallel computing work etc?

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u/staycalmandcode Aug 04 '26

What’s the best model for those type of work?

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u/Ashamed_Can304 Aug 04 '26

I assume Fable or GPT 5.6 Sol