OpenAI's Secret Aurora Models Leaked
DeepSeek shipped a new V4.1 Flash checkpoint (1017) at 15 cents per million input tokens under an MIT license. Nick and Jack test it against Opus 5: about 26x cheaper on one task but 3x slower, which makes it a batch-style workhorse. They also ask how much self-reported benchmarks are worth now. Then Google's Willow chip cut magic state errors 40x, and what quantum computing could mean for AI compute and encryption. Plus three mystery OpenAI "Aurora" model IDs (red, green and blue alpha) that showed up in the API for two minutes, whether anyone needs smarter models right now, Stacked closing…
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