Anthropic's distillation pipeline looks stronger, Sonnet update may see big jump
zephyr_z9 · x · 2026-09-26
User synthwavedd predicts that when Sonnet gets updated, it could show a performance jump similar to Opus 5 → 5.5. Zephyrz9 adds that Anthropic's distillation pipeline appears to have gotten stronger, hinting Sonnet's gains will come from distilling stronger models. Unconfirmed community speculation.
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