After the release of Sonnet 5.5, people everywhere said "close to Opus, half the price".
I tested 5 lenses using my own B-roll production line, and the conclusion is: half of them are correct. Cards, charts, 3D: really close, at 54% the cost Ink line hand-drawing: obviously inferior, you can tell by comparing the left and right in the video For the same request, the Opus took 38 rounds to grind and the Sonnet delivered it in 24 rounds. Those 14 rounds saved are just cause and effect and details.
I made this with two prompts using opus 5.5
I used donald's prompt and gave it full access to minimax h3 running on a 5090 for ~4hrs. total cost was $5.
59,674 lines of code and tests in 5 days.
Here's what they bought. With offline packs, on a phone with 4 GB of RAM, BOAR answers at 48% of the quality of Opus with web search. A blind judge scored 61 real research questions (the travel guides pack we tested ships in the next
In the age of AI, perhaps HTML is best for slides instead of PowerPoint?
When I asked Opus 5.5 to create nice-looking slides in HTML where text and elements can be freely edited, the result exceeded my expectations. I want to convey that emotion, so next time I will introduce Opus.
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