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Qwen3.8 Max now ranked as the best overall model by agentic index

262 points · 131 comments · apitman

drnick1 · 1786043769 · focus · HN ↗
Why does an open weights model cost nearly the same as GPT5.6? $1.14 vs $1.23 on the cost index. Since you can't presumably run this on your own hardware given the model size and hence gain other things like privacy, I don't see any reason to move away from GPT at this rate.
1. efficax · 1786044335 · focus · HN ↗
  it's a big honking trillion some parameters model. it's not cheap to run

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