Flop Labs(@flop_labs):IBM's CEO on the 2026Q3 call: open-weight models now cost "anywhere from 25% to 10% of the token cost of the frontier models" and are "now 90% as effective". Epoch AI, 16 October: the open cyber frontier sits "roughly where the closed frontier stood 6–7 months ago". GLM-5.3 scores 160 against 171 for Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 Astra. A tenth of the price for last spring's model. The discount is the lag, and the lag is shrinking. Open weights run on anyone's card. What's missing is a price for the hour on whoever's card it is. Flop is building that missing piece.

2026.10.26 04:28

IBM's CEO on the 2026Q3 call: open-weight models now cost "anywhere from 25% to 10% of the token cost of the frontier models" and are "now 90% as effective". Epoch AI, 16 October: the open cyber frontier sits "roughly where the closed frontier stood 6–7 months ago". GLM-5.3 scores 160 against 171 for Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 Astra. A tenth of the price for last spring's model. The discount is the lag, and the lag is shrinking. Open weights run on anyone's card. What's missing is a price for the hour on whoever's card it is. Flop is building that missing piece.

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