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0 pointspaxys1mo ago0 comments

Hmm all leaks had said this would be Claude 5. Wonder if it was a last minute demotion due to performance. Would explain the few days' delay as well.

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trash_cat1mo ago

I think the naming schemes are quite arbitrary at this point. Going to 5 would come with massive expectations that wouldn't meet reality.

mrandish1mo ago

After the negative reactions to GPT 5, we may see model versioning that asymptotically approaches the next whole number without ever reaching it. "New for 2030: Claude 4.9.2!"

esafak1mo ago

Or approaching a magic number like e (Metafont) or π (TeX).

Squarex1mo ago

the standard used to be that major version means a new base model / full retrain... but now it is arbitrary i guess

cornedor1mo ago

Leaks were mentioning Sonnet 5 and I guess later (a combination of) Opus 4.6

scrollop1mo ago

Sonnet 5 was mentioned initially.

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