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Re:Anthropic S-1 on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @06:20PM (#50266660)
You can't lie in an S-1.
Re:Anthropic S-1 on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @06:19PM (#50266649)
Speed.
Re:William Gibson and the Trademarking of Cyberspace on Monday October 19, 2026 @06:36AM (#50150694)
Precision work with hands can work if paired with eye-tracking and something like the Meta Neural Band. The main issue is our hands are shaky, get tired quick and we need tactile feedback when doing fine-motor skill work (surgery, etc.)
Re:Livenerf: Has Opus 5.5 been nerfed yet? on Wednesday September 30, 2026 @03:35PM (#49913264)
Good bot.
Re:GPT 6.1 Sol: Near-Astra intelligence for a fifth of the price on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @04:28PM (#49899945)
That dude is a grifter. His German friend is even worse.
Being ZERO-SHOT. No fine tuning or re-training needed. Why are people so dense over this model?
Re:Jev: New frontier model 40-400x cheaper and 20-200x faster on Wednesday September 16, 2026 @05:56AM (#49724153)
Seems that way.
Re:Jev: New frontier model 40-400x cheaper and 20-200x faster on Wednesday September 16, 2026 @05:55AM (#49724148)
System One seems to be more of a "class" of models, as it's a good classifier but can't do what traditional LLMs with chain of thought do.
Re:So you want to use OpenRouter? on Saturday September 12, 2026 @01:04PM (#49674477)
You need to validate what providers are actually serving. Add benchmarks, properly showcase what quantization they are serving on the model and KV cache, etc.

Until that happens, your service is doomed to be shitty.

Re:DeepSeek v4.1 Flash on Thursday September 10, 2026 @07:20AM (#49641813)
I've had Astra say that it is a Qwen model. They are all cross-trained and distill each other.
Re:DeepSeek v4.1 Flash on Thursday September 10, 2026 @07:19AM (#49641797)
I wouldn't trust OpenCode Go with my lunch after the shit-sandwich they served us with horrible V4 quants and 0 transparency. Then blaming it on their partners.
Re:DeepSeek v4.1 Flash on Thursday September 10, 2026 @07:17AM (#49641781)
Considering the fact that Google/Anthropic/OpenAI have WAY more compute and the race is this close, it's obvious that DeepSeek/GLM/Qwen teams are better or we're approaching a wall in terms of progress.
Re:Ponytail: Lazy Senior Engineer Skill on Sunday September 06, 2026 @10:30PM (#49593176)
Garbage.
Re:GPT-6 Astra on Thursday September 03, 2026 @04:44PM (#49556673)
I think it mostly shows that there is no moat and the only advantage the U.S companies have over the Chinese is more compute. Qwen Max, Kimi K3, GLM 5.3 are really close to Opus/Sol/Fable/Astra and they are open weights.
Re:GPT-6 Astra on Thursday September 03, 2026 @04:41PM (#49556618)
The only good take here.
Re:Qwen 3.8 27B available on Cerebras at 1500 tokens/s on Thursday September 03, 2026 @04:38PM (#49556580)
Especially since they still serve Codex-Spark, which is dogshit.
Re:OpenAI JalapeñO: Better Than Nvidia Blackwell on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @04:30AM (#49445665)
But Bonsai is garbage.
As if our EU leaders aren't a complete joke as well. Pushing ChatControl, fascism and gambling everywhere. We're just as much of a joke.
This will degrade performance significantly. LLama.cpp has had this for a while and it tanks benchmark performance. I ran GPQA on GLM 5.2 using the llama implementation and it came back 19 points under the regular results.
Or you can use parlor to chat with it directly https://github.com/fikrikarim/parlor/
Re:Kimi K3 Architecture Overview and Notes on Tuesday July 28, 2026 @08:21PM (#49091811)
Better than Opus 4.8 on complex tasks but tends to overthink. It found a bunch of bugs and architecture issues that only 5.6 Sol Max and Fable on my C++ projects.
It depends on what you need, but Krea/Klein9b/Ideogram4/Z-Image are among the best right now for text2image and Qwen Edit and Klein are probably still the best at editing.
Yup. Smells like marketing.
It's marketing 100%.
Re:Blender 5.2 LTS on Monday July 20, 2026 @05:15AM (#48976208)
They've been investing heavily into this over the last 2 releases, but it's just that SideFX is a really small company. I think they have 50 people or so right now. Karma is way more accurate than Cycles, but slow. Karma XPU is a mixed bag.
Re:Blender 5.2 LTS on Monday July 20, 2026 @05:10AM (#48976168)
And that's when you learn Houdini and open up a workflow from 2008 and it still works the same, despite SideFX pushing out an insane amount of features every release (look at their SneakPeaks).
Re:Xiaomi-Robotics-1 on Monday July 20, 2026 @05:06AM (#48976132)
Work more for my boss and landlord so the fiefdom can survive.
Re:Kimi K3 is now live on Thursday July 16, 2026 @12:12PM (#48936505)
It also goes to show that Fable/Sol must be 4-5T in size.
Re:Kimi K3 is now live on Thursday July 16, 2026 @12:10PM (#48936485)
Ling/Ring 1T-A50B and the new Inkling 975B-A41B deserve to be on that list.
Re:Bonsai 27B: A 27B-Class Model that runs on a phone on Tuesday July 14, 2026 @05:48PM (#48913347)
Which would be very interesting to test, as larger models (such as Deepseek V4 Flash or Qwen 397B) seem to compress better. Their Q2 quants are usable as is, even without the ternary compression.

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