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points by informal007 1 day ago | 0 comments
Google is putting much higher priority on frontier models over Flash models, even though they have TPUs.
[–] spyckie2 1 day ago
Makes sense - Flash models are (mostly) distills of the frontier model capability.

If they were able to make flash 3.8 so good off of their 3.1 pro model, flash 4 will probably be really good. But ofc you'd want your pro model to be as strong as possible in coding so that flash can take all those gains and efficient-ize them.

[–] russ_j 1 day ago
They'll have flash 4 soon. It's the most important to them, because it powers search AIO/AI Mode
[–] vatsachak 1 day ago
The better frontier you have the better distill you have because traces are of higher quality.

It's why Opus 5.5 is a beast