# Try the very fast models

> Source: <https://www.natemeyvis.com/try-the-very-fast-models/>
> Published: 2026-07-27 15:25:00+00:00

Models are getting better. That means that the most powerful models today are much more powerful than the most powerful models of a month ago, but it also means that today's fast models today are a lot more powerful than the fast models of a month ago.

Even if you pay close attention to new models, 1 it's easy to focus on power at the frontier and overlook the "93% as good and

I drafted the first 90% of this blog post last Friday morning and only finished it now. Everything above is [significantly more true now](https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-opus-5) than it was when I started writing it. So, this post is itself an example of LLM progress punishing (relatively, at least) normal-speed production.

This is a tricky subject to write about, just on an audience-relationship level. To a first approximation, there are two groups of readers: one group is paying little or no attention to the models powering the AI products they use, and the other is paying *very* close attention to them.[↩](https://www.natemeyvis.com/feed/#fnref-1)

Again, by "professional-quality" I don't mean "as good as expert philosophers within their expertise," I mean "comparably useful to professionally trained philosophers outside their expertise but being careful and doing their homework."[↩](https://www.natemeyvis.com/feed/#fnref-2)

That is, approximately two months old.[↩](https://www.natemeyvis.com/feed/#fnref-3)