With Astra clearly finally warming up for a full launch (with @sama and @openai writing about it again after a month of self imposed pacing), there’s a familiar window to take the narrative with the round robin of model launches, with Grok 4.7 and Gemini Flash 3.8 also on the way. But that’s also perhaps not the best way to frame today’s launch… which got well over 12M views updating the sitting world best model yet again: The benchmark table speaks for itself: While per-token pricing is the same as Fable/Mythos 5, the cache reads had a 75% price cut… great news for long sessions/long context