Are you guys not scared of where we're heading? A year ago, GPT-5 was considered one of the best models in the world. Today, we have open-weight models like Qwen3.6-27B that are competitive enough to run locally on high-end consumer hardware. The pace of progress is absolutely brutal.
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Commentary on the rapid pace of AI progress, noting that open-weight models like Qwen3.6-27B are now competitive enough to run locally on consumer hardware, a year after GPT-5 was among the best.
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