Opus 4.8

“China's moonshot AI released Kimi K three. Open source model, obviously. Performance on par. On par. Not six months behind, not 12 months behind, but now on par with models like Opus 4.8 and GPT 5.6. Which in and of itself is extraordinary, but about 50% cheap…”

“One of the CIOs I was speaking with realized we've been spending hundreds of thousands of dollars per month on people asking Opus 4.8 questions like, Hey, how's it going? Like, what should, what are my macros from the food I ate today? Like, what's the weather…”

“The tokens, however, cost twice as much as Opus 4.8, but it should use less tokens overall because it's theoretically that much better.”