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

420 points · 270 comments · apitman

  1. brcmthrowaway · · focus · HN ↗
    Could someone like Apple be playing the long game - Good Enough(tm) intelligence will eventually fit in our pocket and homes?
    1. kyxsc · · focus · HN ↗
      Apple is already doing this... they worked with Gemini to distill the model into a smaller one that fits on your phone. If you have iOS 27 Beta, you're already using this
      1. notatoad · · focus · HN ↗
        sort of. they have a local model, it does some things. they also have significant cloud infrastructure backing it, and most tasks are going to be sent off to the cloud for processing, not be handled by the on-device model. Siri is not on-device by any stretch of the imagination.
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