To me the most interesting chart on artificial analysis is intelligence index vs cost per task. It's like the third chart down and they graph a pareto line showing where the frontier is and every model on the pareto line has been interesting to me. Luna, Mimo-v2.6-pro, Sol. Hell, Argon.
This MiniMax model is clustered with Haiku 5.5 so (combined with the criticism on here that it was lacklustre while free on opencode go) I don't find it interesting, but every announcement has a chance at pushing that frontier.
I was benchmarking affordable LLMs for japanese->english translation recently and the winner was Kimi K3 - there are a ton of interesting models in the wake of the flagships.
This MiniMax model is clustered with Haiku 5.5 so (combined with the criticism on here that it was lacklustre while free on opencode go) I don't find it interesting, but every announcement has a chance at pushing that frontier.
I was benchmarking affordable LLMs for japanese->english translation recently and the winner was Kimi K3 - there are a ton of interesting models in the wake of the flagships.