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It doesn't beat DS v4.1, and they have so much more compute capacity than any Chinese company, yet still cannot even beat MiniMax M3.1 Flash (220B) despite having 2.7x more parameters (596B).

Damn their last "Inkling Small" model was only 266B and now this is more than double.

CrofAI accepts the openrouter:advisor tool, completely unexpected for an independent inference provider. Recording the results of using this tool across every model shows CrofAI is an OpenRouter wrapper that silently routes to cheaper or weaker models than what you request, explaining its low prices. Proof that this was true at the time of writing follows later.

These models are routed to DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731:

    deepseek-v4-pro-0813
    glm-5.3-flash
    glm-5.2
    qwen3.8-27b
    qwen3.5-397b-a17b
    deepseek-v3.2
    deepseek-v4-pro
    kimi-k2.7-code
    kimi-k2.6
    kimi-k2.6-precision
    mimo-v2.5-pro
    qwen3.6-27b

Not to be "that" person but it's not solved. The feet are reversed and isn't accurate bird anatomy. In real life, what people think of as bird's feet is actually their toes, and their "knee" is actually their tarsal (ankle bone), and their actual knee is almost hidden in their feathers.

OpenAI is being sued by Apple, yes

Being able to read and translate Egyptian hieroglyphs. You may think this is silly but a trained LLM to translate hieroglyphs would be amazing.

It's nothing that tool calling/feeding it the correct information can't solve

Been running tests, seems pretty capable but less knowledgeable, and the CoT reminds me of GLM, so if I had to guess it's almost definitely a Chinese model, and likely a western RL trained variant of a Chinese open weight.

If you click the provider it shows the precision, 45% off at AkashML shows FP8. The drawback is the small context window, at 96k.

Then there's 43% off at StreamLake with FP8 precision and 1M context window.

grep -nr 'unsafe' .

Is all you need to know to consider how much of an abomination it is

You have your dates and models wrong, it was Opus 4.5 released in November 2025, that changed everything, Opus 4.6 was released in February 2026.

I feel like there's only going to be more attempts like this, given the state of how many recently made redundant software engineers out there, and the level of desperation to find a job.

They see it as an investment, they're basically shooting in the dark hoping they'll hit their target and get a bounty payout.

>You start by rejecting those PRs, saying "write more maintainable code, not quick hacks".

How do you go about that when for example, my previous employer just allowed any software developer to commit to any branch, and there was never any code review happening?

It was going to happen regardless due to the nature of enshittification. If they really wanted to stop people using 100M tokens a day, they could've prevented it years ago.

It's possible that Anthropic sees that the loss of $20/mo customers could be offset by the customers purchasing the $100/mo plan

It's quite telling, they've paused new signups because Microsoft doesn't have enough compute, and they moved Opus to only being accessible on a higher tier because Anthropic doesn't have enough compute either.

They're all operating at a loss, enshittification is coming for us all.