It's not just the model name part. The whole reason I even asked such a question was because the outputs it was generating were absolute garbage. Like something that will be generated by a super super small 3B model. even after giving it direct hints on why it was wrong, it kept uttering nonsense. I repeated the same in chatgpt and with sonnet models... they both gave sensible, expected outputs.

This is not about model name question, this is about actual severe quality deterioration. Till yesterday, this was all fine.

I believe they are ding A/B testing. More models will start to show similar behaviours. And this will be specific to India. I might have guessed the reason too:

1. https://indianexpress.com/article/technology/techook/airtel-...

2. https://www.financialexpress.com/life/technology-free-perple...

3. https://www.news18.com/tech/airtels-free-ai-offer-with-perpl...

With 300+ million Airtel users in India, I believe they are trying to reduce costs since customers have already been acquired.