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It looks like they're comparing Orinth 9B to Qwen 3.5 35B, not Qwen 3.6. I guess it kind of makes sense since it's a finetune of 3.5, but I totally missed until I looked closely. In my brief tests, Ornith 35B performed quite well. It won't replace DeepSeek V4 Flash for me, but if it was fast and cheap enough it might. I don't remember being super impressed with Ornith 9B, but I could see it being on par with Qwen 3.5…
A 9B model with the capability of the 35B SOTA from last February is too good to be true, and a wild claim to make IMO even if there's a newer 35B SOTA. I'll need to make time to take it on a test drive and see how it holds up.
The claim isn't so wild when it's a generalist versus a finetune trained specifically on the tasks being benchmarked.