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this post was submitted on 16 Jul 2026
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Looks like China's gone from being 6 months "behind" to more like 6 weeks "behind."
Kind of pricey, but still the cheapest in its weight class. Could be they're simply squeezing what profits they can out of it. I read that they're planning to open the weights in August, at which point third parties will be able to compete based on whatever the actual cost of running it is.
Can't wait to find out how big the investor subsidies were to make this model, alongside the subsidies for whatever it probably copied off (OpenAI? Anthropic?) It would be funny if it weren't for the harm done in the process
There's information about Moonshot's funding on its Wikipedia article. They haven't IPOed, they've received about two billion in investment from various investment firms and other big companies.
Sonnet 4.6 price equivalent, with half to a third of it's tok/s. It'll be interesting to see if the near gpt 5.6 or opus 4.8 level is accurate.