Will we have a 27B model with Fable capabilities in 5 months? History says yes
Summary
Discussion about whether open-source 27B models will soon match the capabilities of recently banned frontier models like GPT-5.1 and Sonnet 4.5, citing historical trends where Qwen 3.6 caught up within months.
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