Luna saw a huge jump after the price cut and is one of the more competitive models at the new price on openrouter.
Maybe they want to see how much market they can grab with Sol?
This might help but there are already cheaper models with Sol's intelligence more or less, the most notable being Grok 4.6 at $6/m which makes it a tougher sell
xmonkee•55m ago
It's really only between Anthropic and OpenAI for many of my use cases, since I have a Zero Data Retention agreement with both. I'm not trusting random inference providers and especially not Elmo with sensitive data.
OutOfHere•29m ago
Since when does Grok 4.6 have Sol 5.6's intelligence? I don't believe it.
mohamedkoubaa•19m ago
I wonder if xAI is A/B testing routing some difficult grok 4.6 queries to Sol to seed some true believers.
jLaForest•11m ago
I don't care how capable or how cheap Grok is, I refuse to financially support a company owned by a white supremacist that is actively working to disenfranchise me and millions of my fellow citizens.
vorpalhex•37m ago
Do other people find 5.6 to be worse at most simple tasks and frequently over complicate things?
I asked it to write a user todo and it turned out a four page essay. I gave the same task to 5.4 and got the small list of checkboxes I expected.
OutOfHere•31m ago
It's your responsibility to set an appropriate level of Thinking. For simple tasks, I use the instant model. As an approximation, the choice is proportional to the amount of time I want it spending on the task. Also, you can always ask it to respond succinctly.
Fergusonb•59m ago
Maybe they want to see how much market they can grab with Sol?
This might help but there are already cheaper models with Sol's intelligence more or less, the most notable being Grok 4.6 at $6/m which makes it a tougher sell
xmonkee•55m ago
OutOfHere•29m ago
mohamedkoubaa•19m ago
jLaForest•11m ago