What Alexander Wissner-Gross has said about Claude Sonnet 5.5
1 quote · 1 episode · Oct 3, 2026
Alexander Wissner-Gross, Computer scientist and founder of Reified, co-host of Moonshots, has been quoted on Claude Sonnet 5.5 once in 1 episode of Moonshots with Peter Diamandis, most recently on October 3, 2026. Each quote below is verbatim and links to the moment it was said.
In their words
Wissner-Gross says Sonnet 5.5 is worse than Opus 5.5 on a cost-performance basis and he does not plan to use it.
“Is it a big jump over the past Sonnet? Yes, obviously, but on a cost performance basis, it's actually worse, it appears, than Opus 5.5”
Moonshots with Peter Diamandis: Recursive's $670M Bet on Self-Improving AI, Sonnet 5.5 Hits 70%, Elon Co-Leads Pentagon Push | EP #299 (Oct 3, 2026) · Listen from 1:44:21
Episodes
Recursive's $670M Bet on Self-Improving AI, Sonnet 5.5 Hits 70%, Elon Co-Leads Pentagon Push | EP #299Moonshots with Peter Diamandis · Oct 3, 2026 · 2 h 27 min
Peter Diamandis and his co-hosts interview Richard Socher about Recursive's self-improving AI, ASI timelines, AI doomerism, new frontier models, and the Pentagon's Project Meridian.
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