Every few weeks, a new model tops a public leaderboard. But in finance and business research, the model isn't the bottleneck anymore. Context is. Continuous benchmarking at AlphaSense shows GPT-5.6 Sol leading the pack, Opus 5 underperforming its predecessor at 5x the cost, and
AlphaSense: Context, Not Models, Is the Finance Bottleneck
AlphaSense's continuous benchmarking shows GPT-5.6 Sol leading, while Opus 5 underperforms its predecessor at 5x the cost. In finance research, context now matters more than the model.