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Intelligence democratization in one chart: the cheapest model above 60 is now 35x cheaper than the runner-up. Every per-request LLM feature that died bc of cost reasons just became a reality.
This goes to show how powerful distillation and sparse architectures are - they’re
DeepSeek V4 Flash (0731) is the cheapest model on the Vals Index to score above 60, and 35x cheaper than the next best model.
That efficiency comes almost entirely from coding. Three of its four strongest Index results are coding and agentic tasks, and the cost gap on those is
I wish @NotionHQ didn't neglect their acquisition of the Cron Calendar. The app literally just doesn't work on iOS and the Mac App's schedule link feature barely works. Pretty sad bc Cron was great & there's so much potential to integrate with Notion here...
Technically, we’ve already reached RSI because if frontier labs are training their models on my coding traces, they’re lowkey only training on GPT-5.6 Sol
