The "current top dog" smartest model available will probably always have a premium to go after use cases where a little more intelligence is worth a lot more value.

It did far better at some tasks compared to Sol (e.g. the ARC 3 benchmark). And at those tasks, it's not just "a bit smarter": It got 30% vs less than 8% - so you're talking 2.75x more for almost 4x the coverage.