BridgeMind

The next few weeks are going to be crazy.

Fable 5.5. GPT 6.1 Astra. Grok 4.8.

And China has been quiet for a while. That's about to change.

More competition is finally coming for Opus 5.5.

Fable 5.5 needs to be affordable.

Fable 5.1 was incredible, but it died in 30 minutes on a $200 Max plan. I haven't touched it since Opus 5.5 came out.

Opus 5.5 is amazing because you can actually use it all day on a subscription.

The smartest model in the world doesn't matter if you can't afford to use it.

Here is my updated model tier list:

I wish Opus 5.5 had more competition.

If someone actually challenged it, Anthropic would be forced to drop Fable 5.5 sooner.

But right now Opus 5.5 is still king.

So there's not much reason for them to release it.

Today we're adding frontend tests to NerfBench.

First test: Claude Opus 5.5 on the lava lamp, launch day vs today.

Sep 22: 9m 35s, 61,953 tokens.
Oct 15: 12m 39s, 78,293 tokens.

Opus 5.5 is using 26% more tokens.

But the result is way better.