Why is Claude Opus 4.6 getting dumber? Model Quantization may be the explanation. As Anthropic targets a new model launch, quantization helps reduce infra cost

Why is Claude Opus 4.6 getting dumber? Model Quantization may be the explanation. As Anthropic targets a new model launch, quantization helps reduce infra cost of AI models at the expense of quality and accuracy. This NVIDIA blog explains the concept: https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/model-quantization-concepts-methods-and-why-it-matters/ https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/model-quantization-concept...