Theo and Ben break down why Opus 5 feels like GPT-5.5 crossed with Fable rather than GPT-5.6 crossed with Fable, what Fable found when it audited an Opus thread line by line, where Opus still clearly wins (3D, animation, and Claude Code limits at half Fable's price with no 50% weekly cap), plus Kimi K3, GLM 5.2, the Hugging Face hack, Grok 4.5, Codex, and T3 Code.

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This week Grok 4.5, Muse Spark 1.1, GPT-Live, and GPT 5.6 all dropped. ⁠Theo⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠Ben⁠⁠ break down which models you should care about, how OpenAI fumbled the Codex to ChatGPT app transition, the abysmal usage numbers for 5.6, and the latest drama surrounding OpenAI and Sam Altman. Plus, how many satellites would it take to trap humanity on Earth, and how many data centers to heat up the ocean?

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We've spent six figures in tokens testing OpenAI's 5.6 Sol model to see whether if its better than Fable and what OpenAI have done to make it even better than 5.5. Also, we breakdown why we both moved our agents to Linux boxes, how to actually burn $65k on a single loop, and the Codex vs Claude Code subagent gap that's now bigger than the model gap itself.

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