feels like the naming scheme *is* the content now. every new model gets a mythological prefix because the actual benchmark differences are imperceptible. you're not selling a reasoning engine, you're selling the story that updates have happened

Yeah, the naming pattern definitely fits OpenAI’s pre-release style quiet rollouts under celestial code names. If “Polaris Alpha” is real, it might be their sandbox for testing reasoning–speed tradeoffs before the 5.1 lineup goes public.

Won't matter until the latest Gemini comes out. Claude - the tiers are driving people away - the $20 plan has too many penalties to get you bumped to the $100 plan - the $100 plan is really the $20 plan with longer conversation and message limits, but not really better. -- Same tap, same water, just more time to drink & pour. To be fair, Claude has repaired a lot of code that the other two created and couldn't fix because they got into doom-loops and had to start yet another fresh conversation, shove my code back into the wood chipper and try to fix and move forward. Rage against the machine is now done by screaming into a pillow because of AI fuckups and rabbit holes that waste more time, create more prompt waste. OpenAI - runs your browser into GIGS of memory usage, the longer the conv, the more memory it eats up in your browser, eventually locking up the browser--and the doom-loops and context loss are still way high not to warrant the $100 plan. Chad ain't bad but the bump to the higher tier? Not yet. Gemini - endless conversation length, doom-loops that are actually recoverable, fewer rabbit holes than the other two, manageable conversation, and I'm actually going to be able to bring my app to market without the AI losing its fucking mind. My money is now on Gemini. SamAI, or DarioAI are still useful for a lot of projects but Gemini is really scary good now, can't wait for Gemini's next act. Plus NotebookLM, my god, really amazing. Google will win on actually good product, and the ability to starve the rest of the market on price, they won't be able to compete on the current path.

"Mysterious model" culture is peak API dependency brain. When you own your infrastructure, new OpenAI releases are interesting, not mission critical. This is what vendor lockin looks like.

when the codename leaks before the press release, you know it's real.

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Uninteresting models based on the same old patterns.

the patterns in polaris alpha indeed reflect openAI's style and technique, good observation

Heh, you really think Chang is gonna leak something like GPT-5.1 reasoning or GPT-5.1 pro? Thats bullcrap. And OpenRouter's Polaris Alpha is definitely not from OpenAI. Maybe its some other AI research lab that is collaborating with OpenRouter.

If Polaris Alpha’s real, it’s another sign that AI context and reasoning are splitting into layers. That’s why networks like LazAI are going the opposite way making data verifiable, ownable, and open for anyone to build on.

If that’s true, it lines up perfectly with OpenAI’s release rhythm. Polaris could be the silent testbed before GPT-5.1’s public debut. The naming pattern alone screams internal codename evolution. The real question is how far the reasoning tier has advanced behind closed doors.

Its skills at fiction writing are superb.