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Qwen team, please please please, release something to outperform and surpass the coding abilities of Opus 4.5. Although I like the model, I don't like the leadership of that company and how close it is, how divisive they're in terms of politics.
Qwen team, please please please, release something to outperform and surpass the coding abilities of Opus 4.5. Although I like the model, I don't like the leadership of that company and how close it is, how divisive they're in terms of politics.
The Chinese labs distill the SOTA models to boost the performance of theirs. They are a trailer hooked up (with a 3-6 month long chain) to the trucks pushing the technology forwards. I've yet to see a trailer overtake it's truck. China would need an architectural breakthrough to leap American labs given the huge compute disparity.
I shared a recording of audio I generated with that here: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jan/22/qwen3-tts/
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Have you tried the new GLM 4.7?
I've been using GLM 4.7 alongside Opus 4.5 and I can't believe how bad it is. Seriously. I spent 20 minutes yesterday trying to get GLM 4.7 to understand that a simple modal on a web page (vanilla JS and HTML!) wasn't displaying when a certain button was clicked. I hooked it up to Chrome MCP in Open Code as well. It constantly told me that it fixed the problem. In frustration, I opened Claude Code and just typed "Why…
My experience is that all of the models seem to do a decent job of writing a whole application from scratch, up to a certain point of complexity. But as soon as you ask them for non-trivial modifications and bugfixes, they _usually_ go deep into rationalized rabbit holes into nowhere.
I burned through a lot of credits to try them all and Gemini tended to work the best for the things I was doing. But as always, YMMV.
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>how divisive they're in terms of politics What do you mean by this?
Dario said not nice words about China and open models in general: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-20/anthropic...
Being critical of favorable actions towards a rival country shouldn't be divisive, and if it is, well, I don't think the problem is in the criticism.
Also the link doesn't mention open source? From a google search, he doesn't seem to care much for it.
Has anyone successfully run this on a Mac? The installation instructions appear to assume an NVIDIA GPU (CUDA, FlashAttention), and I’m not sure whether it works with PyTorch’s Metal/MPS backend.
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>how divisive they're in terms of politics What do you mean by this?
Dario said not nice words about China and open models in general: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-20/anthropic...
I prefer to have more open models. On the other hand China closes up their open models once they start to show a competitive edge.