wow, openai really missed here. Reading the blog I thought like a minor, incremental minor catch up release for 4o. I thought "wow maybe this is cheaper than 4o so it will offset the pricing difference between this and something like Claude Sonnet 3.7 or Gemini 2.0 Flash both of which performs better. But its like 20x-100x more expensive!

In other words, these performance stats with Gemini 2.0 Flash pricing looks reasonable. At these prices, zero usecases for anyone I think. This is a dead on arrival model.