17 comments

  • HeavyStorm 2 hours ago
    Excellent idea, most terrible execution. Comparison are completely subjective, problem space is too simplistic for today's AI, the resultstable simply ignores that a face isn't a cube (therefore, gpt 5 shouldn't have 100% success) and the retry is uneven. Also, given the random nature of AI, sampling once each model isn't very scientific.

    This feels like a kid trying to do science. The will is there, but lacks experience.

    • sinuhe69 56 minutes ago
      It said “3D-looking Rubrik cube”. Maybe your cube looks different but I’m pretty sure for everyone else, the GPT result doesn’t look like a 3D-looking Rubrik cube.
    • hyperhello 1 hour ago
      It’s still science if you say “this appears to be a specimen of X” even if you don’t do a genetic test. Things don’t automatically graduate to science either by repetition or by formal verification. What makes a rubics cube is obvious enough that you can pass or fail.
    • looksjjhg 32 minutes ago
      Show us how it’s done then, talk is cheap
  • dadoum 2 hours ago
    I tried to one-shot the first test (the Rubik's Cube test) with LucidQuery's Swift model, to test it, as there are not much benchmarks about it and that they brag a lot about it, and I was pleasantly surprised to see it achieving a result similar to Grok 4.5 but in one shot (there is the same issue that if you scramble twice the solve button does not work anymore, but it got it in one shot).

    Though it crunched most of the free quota, 47111 tokens, so I couldn't make multiple attempts.

  • steve-atx-7600 1 hour ago
    I have not used grok 4.5 yet, but the other pictures match my experience doing anything graphical with the other models that it cracks me up. gpt 5.5 has no design sense whatsoever. It cannot even make terminal output not look terrible. I've asked it to use colors and formatting in various ways and got goofy randomly colored output. opus 4.7 and later seemed to have an inuitive design sense by comparison - 2d or 3d. Fabel 5 is just rock solid.

    Yes, subjective. But it matches my repeated experiences with these models for what it is worth.

  • jeffgreco 2 hours ago
    So strange to write a whole post with Claude giving the best results and Grok consistently the worst, but awarding Grok the winner because at least it did the worst fastest?
    • singingtoday 2 hours ago
      GPT was the worst on the Rubik's cube
      • cuvinny 1 hour ago
        They gave grok 2nd try on that one. Now one shotting a webpage is a dumb metric but if that is what you are testing it did the worse.
      • GaggiX 2 hours ago
        Grok did not render anything, they had to prompt it again.
  • mlmonkey 2 hours ago
    I am 99% sure the post was written by AI
    • ks2048 1 hour ago
      Blog post idea:

      We made Grok 4.5, GPT-5.5, and Claude write a blog post about using Grok 4.5, GPT-5.5, and Claude to build the same apps.

    • jszymborski 2 hours ago
      The honest takeaway: this is 100% written by an LLM.
      • mlmonkey 2 hours ago
        That was the honest giveaway ... :-D
        • Crisco 1 hour ago
          I did a quick skim and the usage of phrases like "snappy stylist" and "speed-and-value monster" were what instantly stuck out to me as AI. I decided I probably didn't need to actually read the article after that.
          • walrus01 1 hour ago
            This is the real unlock of the speed and value monster.

            I am trying to figure out how many LLM converged on a writing style that resembles a LinkedIn MBA true believer. Maybe because there was just such a sheer mass of corporate-speak drone writing out there in the wild in the training data set?

            But more seriously, is there a firefox extension that 'skims' the text body content of a page and puts some kind of "this was probably written by AI" meter, gauge, number or indicator in the top menu bar adjacent to the URL bar? It could even be color coded in various shades from green, yellow, orange, red. If there isn't, it sure seems like something that would be good to have.

            • hattmall 15 minutes ago
              It's kinda logical. Most people, individually, have a somewhat unique writing style. So if there's one set of writing that's very formulaic and consistent and you build an averaging machine it's going to converge on that formulaic style because everyone else's writing style is going to be much closer to n=1.
    • dwa3592 2 hours ago
      i will give you the remaining 1% because i felt the same way.
    • walrus01 1 hour ago
      But just think of the amazing advancements over the past 12-18 months in fully automated slop-posting! We've reached a new high water mark.
  • singingtoday 2 hours ago
    Love the idea, I think more complex games would show the gap in ability better.

    Do it again but this time get them to make a multiplayer online Jetmen REVIVAL game. Online play is key, because it's very complex. Jetmen is a good game for this since it has physics and customization that's complex enough but still simple.

  • Kuyawa 2 hours ago
    I'd like to see the comparisons with DeepSeek, Qwen, Mimo, Kimi and GLM
  • Zebfross 1 hour ago
    Isn’t the number of turns most important? Some agents take repeated input, while others can mostly one-shot what I’m looking for.
  • paxys 2 hours ago
    Why not wait one more day for GPT-5.6?
    • foxfired 2 hours ago
      If we wait for the next models, we will never test anything because there will always be another model. Like the Ai Scotsman:

      > "Nay, laddie, that’s no’ the real AI Scotsman! He’s grander still! More powerful! Just wait for the next model!"

      • looksjjhg 2 minutes ago
        I think he’s being sarcastic
    • faitswulff 2 hours ago
      Also throw in GLM 5.2 for good measure
    • acters 2 hours ago
      I worry that GPT 5.6 will be heavily restricted and have the same feature to fallback to another model like Claude fable 5 does all too often. That fallback shenanigans mess up actual benchmarks and I don't like it.
    • m4rkuskk 2 hours ago
      That will be in the Part 2 article.
    • fluidcruft 2 hours ago
      And why not Sonnet?
  • kelvinjps10 1 hour ago
    Chat got ones were slow on Firefox mobile
  • thorum 2 hours ago
    Interesting that all four models converge on such similar designs, for such short prompts.
    • HeavyStorm 2 hours ago
      They were trained pretty much on the same data.
  • RickS 2 hours ago
    Barring the retry thing, n=1 on all models? Am I misreading, or is this a joke?

    Variance in quality on these things is so, so high.

  • nrightnour 1 hour ago
    This is disgustingly biased. The conclusion is that Grok holds its own?! There was zero evidence of that.
  • yashthakker 3 minutes ago
    [dead]
  • krauq 2 hours ago
    Too nice to Grok, if there are really cost savings it should say how much each of the three demos cost so we can judge if it's worth the lower quality (probably not). The time to complete each would also be interesting.
  • RazorBucksICO 1 hour ago
    “The honest headline:”

    Written by Claude. Ugh. If it’s worth publishing, it’s worth proofreading, folks.

    • Yiin 1 hour ago
      especially when using /humanizer is one prompt away
  • maxdo 3 hours ago
    Tried at work , this release def a moment I will remember. My work is not the same . The model is the first model that offer exactly as I want :

    For hard tasks , that needs precision I will wait and pay expensive tokens

    For everything else , query data , logs, rolling out releases , I’m using grok and it’s much better vs other tools and much cheaper too .

    • Tostino 1 hour ago
      Who the hell tries something that's been out a few hours and says "My work is not the same"?