CLAUDE 𝗦𝗢𝗡𝗡𝗘𝗧 𝟱 IS OFFICIALLY LIVE!How it compares to Opus models (mainly Opus 4.8)-Performance: Close to Opus 4.8 on coding, reasoning, tool use, and agentic/multi-step work. Anthropic calls it their “most agentic Sonnet yet” it plans, uses browsers/terminals, runs autonomously, self-checks, and recovers from errors better than Sonnet 4.6.-Where it wins on value: Much better price/performance. You get near-Opus results at roughly 1/5th the cost of older Opus models ($15/$75 range) or low

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image (Nano Banana 2 Lite) has entered the Text-to-Image Arena. It ranks #5 overall.Google's latest Gemini-3.1-Flash-Lite-Image lands on the Pareto frontier: scoring 1251 at just $0.034/image. This is near flagship quality at a fraction of the price.The cost-to-quality curve just got a lot more interesting.Congrats to @GoogleDeepMind on the release!