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A comment on VibeThinker: 3B param model that beats Opus 4.5 on reasoning with novel SFT+GRPO.

Re:VibeThinker: 3B param model that beats Opus 4.5 on reason... by NotSuspicious on Tuesday June 23, 2026 @01:16AM (#48640611)
The interesting thing about models this small is they should be able to be put on a single Taalas chip (the HC1 already runs a Llama 3.1 8B model). We're already at the point where half-decent reasoning could be run on an ASIC (and at mind-boggling speeds).
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Re:VibeThinker: 3B param model that beats Opus 4.5 on reason... by pants2 on Tuesday June 23, 2026 @01:53AM (#48640892)
Yeah, if they can fit an 8B model that's really good at improving the output by thinking, running at 16K tok/s on Taalas would be mind-blowing.
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Re:VibeThinker: 3B param model that beats Opus 4.5 on reason... by le-mark on Tuesday June 23, 2026 @06:53AM (#48643062)
Given this and the quality of open models, it makes no sense to me that there’s a future for Anthropic et all?
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Re:VibeThinker: 3B param model that beats Opus 4.5 on reason... by james_marks on Tuesday June 23, 2026 @08:31AM (#48643988)
Packaging a capability into a consumable form will still be business.

It's like web hosting; all the open source tools are there and free, and yet website tools, hosts, etc flourish.

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Re:VibeThinker: 3B param model that beats Opus 4.5 on reason... by WhiteDawn on Tuesday June 23, 2026 @08:59AM (#48644305)
It’s true, but hosting prices are still within spitting distance of rolling it yourself.

SOTA providers are expecting some level of margin. Companies everywhere have a tight eye on their AI bills right now.

The motivation is there if the models get good enough, even if it’s more painful.

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Re:VibeThinker: 3B param model that beats Opus 4.5 on reason... by CamperBob2 on Tuesday June 23, 2026 @05:28PM (#48651714)
Exactly, it's like web hosting.

And I don't see a lot of web hosts with twelve-digit valuations.

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Re:VibeThinker: 3B param model that beats Opus 4.5 on reason... by anuramat on Tuesday June 23, 2026 @07:09PM (#48652848)
it's not like anthropic will stop improving their models
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