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> Even Google's cheaper Gemini 3 Flash model seems to be slightly ahead of Opus 4.5.

What an insane take for anybody uses these models daily.

Yes, I personally feel that the "official" benchmarks are increasingly diverging from the everyday reality of using these models. My theory is that we are reaching a point where all the models are intelligent enough for day-to-day queries, so points like style/personality and proper use of web queries and other capabilities are better differentiators than intelligence alone.

The benchmarks haven't reflected the real utility for a very long time. At best they tell you which models are definitely bad.

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