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Morph is hosting this as well

Havn't seen it for months with other frontier models.

Sorry it was not one time but it happened easily 5-10x during the past few days on different topics and prompts and I didn't store them. It felt like when pushing the model on some specifics in some niche topics in German (I have been prompting in German and the model responded in German). It was the acutal output and not the thinking traces and it was through the API. I jokingly asked it what the character meant and it didn't even make sense in the context so it seemed like random chinese characters.

The weird thing about this model is that it spits out Chinese characters just like the chinese models when chatting with it in German. Happened to me quite often during the past few days.

Those are crazy numbers for a Flash model. Hopefully they can scale what they are doing to 4.1 Pro.

When the host dies with local storage, the VM is dead. With EBS it's not, since it simply can be booted up on another host. EBS is also replicated accross multiple hosts.

Verda is great! The only thing bad about Verda is that it's sold out fairly often :-) So the $189M will hopefully help with that.

Anthropic trained their LLMs with copyrighted stuff but distillation is bad. Anthropic has closed models, China releases as open weight. DeepSeek even allows distilling their models, but China = bad. Understood.

Mistral Small 4 is also a MoE model, with way more params, so I would expect it to perform better. Our benchmark involves around 10% communication and writing in German and English and Gemma 4 26B A4B beats it although creative writing is the only category in our benchmark which might be a bit subjective.

Mistral has solid OCR, STT and TTS models and I would love to support them by switching with all of our business workloads to Mistral... but their LLM models are sadly not competitive at all. In our business benchmarks their Mistral Medium 3.5 with reasoning is worse than Gemma 4 31B and Glimmer 30B. It's a 128B dense model that's priced accordingly! Mistral Small 4 is way worse than Gemma 4 26B A4B. I applaude the effort that they release those models as open weight but Gemma 4 models are currently way easier to run with more tok/s and less hardware. Their API pricing is just insane for what you get. But I guess enterprise customers don't care about it, this is why they are probably not lowering it.

For me Opus 5 was the nail in the coffin. Fable without the restrictions was a great model, but became unusable with the security guardrails. Opus 5 became so bad and slow it's unbearable. And since Fable falls back to Opus all the time it was time to switch. Me and my friends are calling it Slowpus by now... Up until some weeks ago Anthropic was the king, but we all switched to Grok 4.6. It became slow as well but is not down all the time, is a solid model and paired with another reviewer model it's a great daily driver.

Gemma 4 31B is underrated. It surprises me a lot.