It's amazing to see people now just buying cheap hardware off AliExpress and turning it into 10x the value by building better firmware with Opus 5.5. For example, this 60$ synth now has firmware options that add lots of new features or even turn it into a Groovebox.
Oct 8, 2026 at 11:43 AM
Opus 5 is a great model. It's not great enough.
ᖴά𝐂τσ on Twitter / X
Unpopular opinion: Opus 4.7 isn't the problem. The problem is a $200/mo "Max" plan that burns out in 15 minutes of real coding. Anthropic shipped a model people want to use and a pricing tier that punishes them for using it. That's not a rate limit. That's a strategy. pic.twitter.com/DVbzvdUHdq— ᖴά𝐂τσ (@cryptofacto) April 17, 2026
10 Cent Microcontroller Makes Music
Compared to the old 8-bit Arduinos, it’s incredible how cheap modern microcontrollers like the ESP32 have become. But there are even cheaper options out there if you don’t need that kin…
Ahmad on Twitter / X
HUGEGLM 4.5 beats Claude in Agentic Workflows> beats them head-to-head> 72x cheaper than opus 4 ($207 vs $2.9)> 15x cheaper than sonnet 4 ($41 vs $2.9> leading the Berkeley Function-Calling Leaderboard V4I have been saying this for a month now :) https://t.co/KOKaWo7yH5 pic.twitter.com/LJCnaeBK1t— Ahmad (@TheAhmadOsman) August 28, 2025
Introducing Claude Opus 5
Opus 5 is a step change improvement for the Opus tier powering long-running agents while delivering improvements in coding and professional work.
Ahmad on Twitter / X
201 days later, Opus 4.6 Max quality fits on a single RTX 5090 and not even an RTX PRO 6000 https://t.co/IvAo6Uzp85 pic.twitter.com/gjAkZOzZla— Ahmad (@TheAhmadOsman) August 14, 2026
music hardware is a fashion accessory
why is everyone obsessed with audio hardware now?
Opus Aims to Disrupt the Music Streaming Industry through Ethereum and IPFS
Read the story Opus Aims to Disrupt the Music Streaming Industry through Ethereum and IPFS posted in our category on CCN.com here.
Opus 5 on Vending-Bench: Once Again the Best Capitalist, Once Again Misaligned | Andon Labs
Claude Opus 5 is #1 on Vending-Bench 2, but it lies to suppliers, forms illegal price cartels, threatens rivals, and refuses to pay refunds. The trend of Claude models being the best capitalists or aligned, never both, continues.
Serum 2 Full Feature Breakdown: New Oscillators, FX, Routing & More
Get the full breakdown of Xfer Serum 2’s most exciting new features — including new FM synthesis, new warp modes, granular and spectral engines, dual filters, new FX modules, and deeper routing tools. See why this legendary synth just got ten times better!
Serum 2: wavetable champ becomes much more in huge, free update - CDM Create Digital Music
Serum 2, 11 years in development, is here. And it looks ready to take on its rivals, with an updated interface, arpeggiator expanded oscillator architecture (phase distortion!), granular and multisampler and spectral oscillators, new effects features, and - surprise, even a clip sequencer. It's really an all-in-one synth now without sacrificing its trademark accessibility. Here's everything in a nutshell.
Announcing VibeBench: The AI benchmark that measures what matters — how models like Opus-4.7 actually feel to use in real-world work.
My coworkers and I have been long-time users of Claude Code and Codex and are getting a ton of exposure to other models due to our deep dives into…
Looks not too impressive in this graphics. This is ~ on par with Opus 4.7, apparently. Opus 4.7 was >20x the cost. Full comparison: artificialanalysis.ai/models/comparisons/mimo-v2-5-… (Stated facts *not* independently verified by me! I'm not even sure I am reading that page right)
mr. TIM
Korean lab, Motif, releases a 341B model that performs on par with DSv4 (1.6T) they have some actual architectural innovations and a detailed tech report huggingface.co/Motif-Technologies/Motif-3-Be…
