Why does Google constantly kill off good things?
but it's more likely just a business case: they need you buying higher tier model output. They know whose doing what, so someone needs their 3Q bonus.
But then I realized Opus 3 is an outlier, and Anthropic has removed access to relatively more recent models. https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/about-claude/model-depre...
I wonder what the deal is with Opus 3.
But this could be framed as 'getting attached to an API revision when a new one is available'...
I can see it both ways, tbh.
It's not because a model performs better in some applications (often by fine-tuning to get better scores at specific tests) that it is better across the board or that we have to believe the company releasing the model with a high number 3 > 2 so that it is commonly accepted as better.
Pushing the reasonnning further: f you need an Opus level performance then not accepting GPT 3 isn't a smell.
I tried 3 flash for months and it didn’t work using Googles own vertexai integration because it’s been in preview mode for months.
Not wanting to pay significantly more and do a bunch of rework isn’t a smell.
They left a large gap in their new pricing vs the prior generation, and if you had a working use case that sucks. The model is >99% reliable for my use case so there’s nothing to gain from a smarter model.
And as another commenter pointed out - in particular for Google of all companies - expect that the rug pull can and will happen. They're not known for keep anything around for very long.
If a company deploys a paid AI model and makes people depend on it, they need to dump the weights at EOL.
At least in benchmarks, it scores higher and is faster.
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