Thats ok from the perspective of it making room for a more capable and expensive GPT5 model to compete with Opus 3.5 when that arrives this year. The significa

Thats ok from the perspective of it making room for a more capable and expensive GPT5 model to compete with Opus 3.5 when that arrives this year. The significant price drops for a small loss in quality is a reasonable tradeoff. Then GTP4o becomes the mid tier and GTP4o-mini the low tier. There was 100 days in between Claude 3.0 Opus and Claude 3.5 Sonnet being released which gave us similar capability at a 80% price reduction. When I was using Opus I was thinking this is nice, but the cost does add up. Having Sonnet 3.5 so soon after was a nice surprise. One more round of 80% price cuts after that combined with building out the multi-step agentic workflows should provide some decent capabilities!