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Hmm all leaks had said this would be Claude 5. Wonder if it was a last minute demotion due to performance. Would explain the few days' delay as well.
by paxys 9mo ago
Hmm all leaks had said this would be Claude 5. Wonder if it was a last minute demotion due to performance. Would explain the few days' delay as well.
- trash_cat 9mo agoI think the naming schemes are quite arbitrary at this point. Going to 5 would come with massive expectations that wouldn't meet reality.
- mrandish 9mo agoAfter the negative reactions to GPT 5, we may see model versioning that asymptotically approaches the next whole number without ever reaching it. "New for 2030: Claude 4.9.2!"
- esafak 9mo agoOr approaching a magic number like e (Metafont) or π (TeX).
- Squarex 9mo agothe standard used to be that major version means a new base model / full retrain... but now it is arbitrary i guess
- cornedor 9mo agoLeaks were mentioning Sonnet 5 and I guess later (a combination of) Opus 4.6
- scrollop 9mo agoSonnet 5 was mentioned initially.