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redox99 | on: AMD acquires Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models in silicon
Is there any LLM from exactly one year ago that would be worth running?

In Aug 2025 you had

- OpenAI o3

- Opus 4.1

- Gemini 2.5 Pro

- Grok 4

Even if those were almost free to run, you'd be way better off with Deepseek flash 0731 or GPT 5.6 Luna, which already are almost free.

Other than for things where the t/s are critical, it seems like a bad idea to etch a model into silicon.

mdp2021 | parent | next
> Is there any LLM from exactly one year ago that would be worth running?

Bad perspective: consider the correction: "when are thresholds of sought quality reached"? Hence: not "is there a 10yo from last year that could compete with the current 13yo", but "will there be a 30(?)yo from last year that could compete with the current 33(?)yo" ('(?)': the scale of yearly growth in the future is uncertain).

redox99 | root | parent
It's not just about it "being smart enough". It's about there being actual user demand when it needs to compete with the shiny new model.

A 10 year old iPhone is probably good enough, but is there demand for it? In a vacuum a 10 year old iPhone is good, but why would you pick it if you can have a current one for a reasonable price?

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daishi55 | parent
That is fkin wild. o3 was just a year ago? The progress is truly insane.
redox99 | root | parent
Yeah I had to double check, o3 feels like it was ages ago. But GPT 5 came out Aug 7, so it's only one day off from my 1 year ago cutoff!