I have a question, what is considered a Frontier Model? Because its performance is kinda similar to Luna (Max)... I thought frontier meant like 6.1 Sol or 6 Astra or Opus 5.5??? Could someone explain this to me?
They might mean the intelligence/dollar frontier aka the Pareto frontier, but honestly much of the time that's not a great measure.
If you are doing repeated work on the same task (eg call center triage) then you can always beat a large LLM on price by fine tuning a small one.
If you are doing knowledge work then models are so varied that factors other than price are usually important. For example, lots of people moved away from Opus 5 because of it's awful English, whereas Opus 5.5 has fixed that. These things aren't measured in benchmarks.