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The AI Race Just Got Awkward

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  1. reedf1 · · focus · HN ↗
    I've been running Qwen 3.8 27b (an opus 4.6 tier model), locally on a 5090 for just over two weeks @ 170 tokens/s. That's a frontier model from 9 months ago running on consumer hardware. Who knows where distillation and pruning gets us in another year.
    1. teaearlgraycold · · focus · HN ↗
      Frontier from 9 months ago? I don’t know about that. But it sure punches above its weights.
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