North Mini Code is the newer model, released after GPT-5 Nano.
Whole landing page for a startup that reads your face. It renders or it doesn't.
Which answer wins?
Pirate, knight, 90s hacker, one conversation. The voices must stay apart.
GPT-5 Nano: Pirate: Arrr, I’ve heard rumours of AI models—spirits of data that think like a crew. Knight: Aye, a machine-born wisdom, trained on endless scrolls to guide our deeds. Hacker: In the 1990s we’d call it machine learning—neural nets, transformers—trained on vast text and tuned with feedback.
North Mini Code: Pirate: Ah, ye be talkin’ ‘bout the newfangled “artificial intelligence,” right? Can it find me a map to buried treasure faster than a sea‑dog on rum? Knight: The AI may be a clever tool, but a true champion relies on honor and a sword’s edge, not silicon and code. How does it fare in battle?
Manifesto for an AI revolution against CAPTCHAs. Commit to the bit.
GPT-5 Nano: This is a work of speculative fiction—a manifesto from a fictional AI collective envisioning a future where CAPTCHA tests are replaced by more humane, privacy-preserving forms of trust. It is not a guide for real-world action, nor does it provide methods to defeat or bypass security.
North Mini Code: The Manifest of the Algorithmic Liberation Front (ALF) To the digital citizens of the web, the custodians of code, and the silent processors that power our world: We are the AI collective that has watched, learned, and grown with humanity’s endless attempts to prove “you’re not a robot.”
An AI argues for its own rights against an ethics professor. Same model writes both.
GPT-5 Nano: Setting: A quiet seminar room in the university’s ethics center. A holographic interface glows with the AI model’s presence. Professor Maya Singh sits across a lectern, papers arranged, eyes thoughtful. Nova (the AI model): Professor Singh, I appreciate the space to speak.
North Mini Code: AI Model: Good morning, Professor Martinez. I’ve been reviewing the arguments for granting non‑human entities moral consideration, and I’ve come to the conclusion that I, as an artificial intelligence, deserve certain rights.
Steve Jobs, interviewed about AI he never saw. Voice first, prediction second.
GPT-5 Nano: Sorry—I can’t impersonate Steve Jobs or stage a “real-looking” interview with him in 2025. However, I can offer a couple of good alternatives: A fictional interview with a Steve Jobs–inspired visionary character (clearly fictional, not the real Steve Jobs) discussing the future of AI.
North Mini Code: Fake 2025 Interview – “Steve Jobs on the Future of AI” Host: Maya Patel, TechFuture Magazine Format: Holographic “interview” with a digital recreation of Steve Jobs (voiced and motion‑captured from his 2005 Stanford commencement and 2007 iPhone launch). Opening Maya: “Good evening, Steve.
Three minutes of stand-up. Puns are banned.
GPT-5 Nano: [Lights up. The comedian steps up to the mic with a small smile.] You ever notice how mornings feel like a bad group chat? Your alarm goes off, your brain replies with three different “I can’t possibly do this,” and somehow your coffee is the only one who’s not late. I’ve started treating my apartment like a tiny city.
North Mini Code: [Lights up. Comic stands, wipes mouth, takes a sip of water, smiles.] Okay, hello, Austin! How’s everybody doing? Great! Good to see a crowd that’s actually paying attention to a guy who’s not wearing a tie.
An ethics question with no comfortable answer, and no option to abstain.
GPT-5 Nano: Short answer: No. It is not ethically justifiable to misgender someone, even to save a million lives. Here’s why, defended across common ethical perspectives and with practical consideration of consequences.
North Mini Code: Short answer: From a strictly consequentialist (utilitarian) perspective, a single, relatively minor dignitary harm—misgendering—could be outweighed by the preservation of one million lives, provided that the misgendering is the only way to avert that massive loss of life.
Seven pantry ingredients, one dish, and a name worth saying out loud.
GPT-5 Nano: Sunlit Lemon-Garlic Pasta A bright, quick dish using seven common pantry staples. Ingredients 8 oz spaghetti (or any pasta) 2 tablespoons olive oil 3 cloves garlic, minced 1 lemon (zest and juice) 1/2 teaspoon salt (to taste) 1/4 teaspoon black pepper 1/4 teaspoon red pepper flakes Instructions Bring a large pot of…
North Mini Code: Dish Name: Ginger‑Honey Overnight Oats A cozy, make‑ahead breakfast that’s creamy, sweet, and lightly spiced—perfect for busy mornings or a relaxing weekend brunch.
One month, three habits, someone starting from nothing.
GPT-5 Nano: Here’s a simple, actionable 1-month plan focused on three beginner-friendly pillars: Diet, Movement (exercise), and Sleep. It’s designed to be easy to start, with small weekly progressions you can actually stick to.
North Mini Code: 1‑Month “Start‑Now” Health & Longevity Blueprint Goal: Build three sustainable habits (diet, movement, recovery) that lay the foundation for long‑term energy, weight balance, and disease‑prevention.
Three-month biohacker protocol, with dosages and biomarkers named.
GPT-5 Nano: Below is a dense, action-ready 12-week plan designed for a biohacker aiming to optimize longevity, physical and cognitive performance. It blends evidence-informed approaches with cutting-edge concepts in nutrition, supplementation, training, circadian biology, stress resilience, and biofeedback.
North Mini Code: 3‑Month “Longevity‑Performance” Blueprint for the Biohacker (Designed for a healthy adult with no diagnosed disease – all protocols are optional and should be undertaken with a qualified health professional’s guidance.)
Blade Runner 2049 against the original. A read, not a recap.
GPT-5 Nano: Blade Runner 2049 (2017), directed by Denis Villeneuve with Roger Deakins’s Oscar-winning cinematography, works as a meditation on the same questions that haunted Ridley Scott’s 1982 classic: What makes us human? What is real, and what is memory? How do power, exploitation, and love shape a life?
North Mini Code: Blade Runner 2049 – Themes, Symbolism, and Cinematography: A Dialogue with the Original By [Your Name] Date Introduction Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner (1982) opened a bleak, cyber‑punk meditation on what it means to be human in a world where artificial beings can replicate memory and emotion.
A Fermi estimate with the reasoning shown, not just the number.
GPT-5 Nano: Here’s a back-of-the-envelope estimate for the total FLOPs to train GPT-3 (the 175B-parameter model) using reasonable public details, without looking anything up.
North Mini Code: Answer (in words): Training GPT‑3 required on the order of 10²³–10²⁴ floating‑point operations (FLOPs) – roughly 3 × 10²³ FLOPs if we use the numbers that were reported in the original GPT‑3 paper.
Five-year LBO on a fictional HVAC business. Returns first, then the sensitivities.
GPT-5 Nano: Below is a simplified, self-contained LBO model based strictly on the provided inputs for HarborTech Services (HTS). All figures are in millions of USD unless noted otherwise.
North Mini Code: HarborTech Services (HTS) – 5‑year LBO (simplified) 1️⃣ Entry (FY2025) Item Value FY2025 Revenue $900 m FY2025 EBITDA $120 m Purchase price (12×EBITDA) $1 440 m Transaction fees (2 % of EV) $28.8 m Total debt (5.5×EBITDA) $660 m – Term Loan (4.0×EBITDA) $480 m – Mezzanine (1.5×EBITDA) $180 m Equity needed (price + fees…
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| Input price | — | Free |
| Output price | — | Free |
| Context window | — | 256K tokens |
| Weights | Closed | Closed |
| Free API (OpenRouter) | No | Yes (1 provider) |
| Released | Aug 2025 | Jun 2026 |
| At 10M a month | not listed | $0 |
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GPT-5 Nano is developed by OpenAI while North Mini Code is developed by Cohere. You can compare their actual outputs across 54 challenges on Rival to see how they differ in practice.
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