GPT-5, the world best model just 1 year ago, is today inferior to Qwen3.6 27B and most today’s low-tier models
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GPT-5, which was the best model just a year ago, is now outperformed by Qwen3.6 27B and other current low-tier models, highlighting the rapid pace of AI advancement.
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