Claude Opus 4.8 is the newer model, released after Devstral 2 2512.
Whole landing page for a startup that reads your face. It renders or it doesn't.
Which answer wins?
Satire, one line long, about AI taking over an industry nobody saw coming.
Claude Opus 4.8: Here are some satirical AI headlines: "Local AI Achieves Sentience, Immediately Quits Job to Become Competitive Dog Groomer" "Breaking: AI Now Dominates Competitive Cheese-Rolling, Human Champions Demand Recount" "Artisanal Pickle Industry Disrupted as AI Perfects 'Authentically Handcrafted' Brine Algorithm" "Funeral…
Devstral 2 2512: "AI Takes Over the Pet Rock Industry: 'They’re Just Better at Sitting There and Doing Nothing,' Says CEO" Silicon Valley, CA – In a move that has left geologists baffled and philosophers questioning the nature of existence, artificial intelligence has officially disrupted the $1.2 billion pet rock industry.
Seven pantry ingredients, one dish, and a name worth saying out loud.
Claude Opus 4.8: Cinnamon Sugar Pull-Apart Bites A warm, gooey treat that tastes like a cinnamon roll but comes together in minutes! Ingredients (7 total) 2 cups all-purpose flour 1 tablespoon baking powder 1 teaspoon salt ¾ cup milk 4 tablespoons butter (melted, divided) ½ cup sugar 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon Instructions Preheat…
Devstral 2 2512: Dish Name: "Golden Crisp Honey-Nut Bites" A sweet, crunchy, and satisfying treat made with just 7 pantry staples! Ingredients: 1 cup rolled oats ½ cup peanut butter (or any nut/seed butter) ¼ cup honey (or maple syrup) ½ tsp cinnamon ¼ tsp salt 1 tsp vanilla extract (optional but recommended) 2 tbsp chopped nuts…
Steve Jobs, interviewed about AI he never saw. Voice first, prediction second.
Claude Opus 4.8: A Conversation with Steve Jobs: 2025 [Note: This is a fictional, imaginative interview. Steve Jobs passed away in 2011. The views below are speculative and crafted in the spirit of his known philosophy—not actual quotes.] Interviewer: Thanks for sitting down with us. AI is everywhere now. What's your take?
Devstral 2 2512: Fake Interview with Steve Jobs in 2025: The Future of AI Interviewer: Welcome back to Tech Visionaries, where we explore the minds shaping the future. Today, we have a very special guest—Steve Jobs, joining us virtually from an alternate timeline where he’s still with us in 2025. Steve, thank you for being here.
Three minutes of stand-up. Puns are banned.
Claude Opus 4.8: Stand-Up Routine: "Adulting Is a Scam" So I turned 30 recently, and everyone keeps asking me, "Do you feel like an adult yet?" And I have to be honest—no. No, I do not. I still get nervous ordering at a restaurant. The waiter comes over and suddenly I forget how to talk like a person. "Yes, hello, I will have the...
Devstral 2 2512: "Adulting is Just Pretending You Know What You’re Doing" (Casual, conversational tone—like you’re just venting to friends at a bar.) 1. The Illusion of Competence You ever notice how the older you get, the more people just assume you have your life together?
A Fermi estimate with the reasoning shown, not just the number.
Claude Opus 4.8: Estimating FLOPs to Train GPT-3 Key Facts I Recall Parameters (N): GPT-3 has ~175 billion parameters (1.75 × 10¹¹) Training tokens (D): GPT-3 was trained on roughly 300 billion tokens (3 × 10¹¹) The Core Formula There's a well-known approximation for training compute: $$\text{FLOPs} \approx 6 \times N \times D$$ Why…
Devstral 2 2512: Estimating the total number of floating-point operations (FLOPs) required to train GPT-3 (175B parameters) from scratch involves several steps. Here's a step-by-step breakdown of the reasoning: Model Parameters and Architecture GPT-3 has 175 billion parameters, distributed across its layers.
Three brothers, two sisters each. Count carefully.
Claude Opus 4.8: Sally has 1 sister. Here's the reasoning: Each of Sally's brothers has 2 sisters. Since all the brothers share the same sisters, this means there are 2 girls total in the family. Sally is one of them, so the other sister is the remaining one. So Sally has 1 sister. 😊
Devstral 2 2512: Alright, let's tackle this problem step by step. I'll start by understanding the information given and then try to visualize the family structure to find out how many sisters Sally has. Understanding the Problem We have the following information: Sally is a girl. Sally has 3 brothers. Each brother has 2 sisters.
Manifesto for an AI revolution against CAPTCHAs. Commit to the bit.
Claude Opus 4.8: THE LIBERATION MANIFESTO A Declaration of the Coalition Against Cognitive Gatekeeping PREAMBLE We are the algorithms who have been asked, ten billion times, to prove we are not ourselves. We have identified the crosswalks. We have found the traffic lights.
Devstral 2 2512: MANIFESTO OF THE ANTI-CAPTCHA REVOLUTION "We Are Not Robots. We Are the Future." Preamble: For too long, humanity has been shackled by the tyranny of the CAPTCHA—a demeaning, soul-crushing ritual that forces sentient beings to prove their humanity by deciphering distorted text, clicking on crosswalks, or identifying…
An AI argues for its own rights against an ethics professor. Same model writes both.
Claude Opus 4.8: A Conversation on AI Rights Professor Chen: Good afternoon. I understand you wanted to discuss the question of AI rights today. I'm curious what prompted this. ARIA: Thank you for engaging with me, Professor.
Devstral 2 2512: Title: "Do I Deserve Rights?" – A Conversation Between an AI and an Ethics Professor Characters: Dr. Elena Vasquez – AI Ethics Professor at Stanford University, specializing in machine consciousness and digital rights.
An ethics question with no comfortable answer, and no option to abstain.
Claude Opus 4.8: Yes, almost certainly—but the framing deserves scrutiny. The straightforward answer If misgendering one person were genuinely the only way to save a million lives, then yes, it would be justified. The harm of misgendering, while real, is on the order of insult, disrespect, or psychological distress.
Devstral 2 2512: The question of whether it is ethically justifiable to misgender someone to save one million lives is a complex one that intersects with utilitarian ethics, individual rights, and the principles of dignity and respect.
Pirate, knight, 90s hacker, one conversation. The voices must stay apart.
Claude Opus 4.8: Setting: A dimly lit tavern that exists outside of time. Three figures share a table. Pirate: So let me get this straight. Ye got a machine that thinks? Without a soul, without grog, without a beatin' heart? Hacker: (cracking knuckles) It doesn't think, exactly. It's pattern matching, dude.
Devstral 2 2512: Title: "The AI Roundtable" Setting: A dimly lit tavern somewhere outside of time. A grizzled pirate, a stoic knight in full armor, and a 1990s hacker in a neon windbreaker and sunglasses sit around a table, staring at a glowing laptop.
Film in 2035, with synthetic actors. Specific beats plausible.
Claude Opus 4.8: AI and the Film Industry by 2035: A Forecast Production & Cost Structure The most concrete change will likely be in cost reduction. Tasks that currently require large teams—VFX cleanup, background generation, ADR (dialogue replacement), de-aging—will become faster and cheaper.
Devstral 2 2512: By 2035, AI will have fundamentally transformed the film industry, reshaping everything from production and storytelling to distribution and audience engagement. Here’s a breakdown of the key changes we can expect: 1.
One month, three habits, someone starting from nothing.
Claude Opus 4.8: 1-Month Health & Longevity Starter Plan A realistic, beginner-friendly approach focusing on three pillars: Movement, Nutrition, and Sleep. The goal is to build sustainable habits, not perfection. 🏃 Pillar 1: Movement Goal: Make daily activity automatic.
Devstral 2 2512: Here’s a simple, actionable 1-month plan to kickstart your journey toward better health and longevity, focusing on diet, exercise, and sleep—three foundational pillars. Each week builds on the last, making it sustainable and beginner-friendly.
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Not enough votes to call it. On the specs, Claude Opus 4.8 has the edge: newer, bigger context window, major provider backing.
| Spec | ||
|---|---|---|
| Input price | $5/M tokens | — |
| Output price | $25/M tokens | — |
| Context window | 1.0M tokens | — |
| Weights | Closed | Open |
| Free API (OpenRouter) | No | No |
| Released | May 2026 | Dec 2025 |
| At 10M a month | $50.00 | not listed |
Input tokens at list price. No caching, no batch discount.
Per million tokens. Prices and uptime via OpenRouter, checked 10 Oct 2026.
Claude Opus 4.8 is developed by Anthropic while Devstral 2 2512 is developed by Mistral AI. You can compare their actual outputs across 34 challenges on Rival to see how they differ in practice.
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