Luna pricing was just cut by 80% https://www.eesel.ai/blog/gpt-5-6-pricing and as the blog post states is a more accurate judge than the previous methodology.

> You gotta admit the timing looks very suspicious.

Do you mean the timing looks like: "We're SV tech-bros. Our benchmarks showed a chinese model above what's considered the best model at the moment. So we quickly modified the benchmark so that our SV tech-bros don't look like they're losing to a chinese model"?

That's indeed a bit fishy.

They could just have avoided all of this by not publishing the benchmark until the new methodology update.