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Re: Qwen3-Max-Thinking

#221

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The American LLMs notoriously have similar censorship issues, just on different material

No, they don't. Censorship of the Chinese models is a superset of the censorship applied to US models. Ask a US model about January 6, and it will tell you what happened.

Wait, so Qwen will not tell you what happened on Jan 6? Didn't know the Chinese cared about that.

Re: Qwen3-Max-Thinking

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

This suggests that the Chinese government recognises that its legitimacy is conditional and potentially unstable. Consequently, the state treats uncontrolled public discourse as a direct threat. By contrast, countries such as the United States can tolerate the public exposure of war crimes, illegal actions or state violence, since such revelations rarely result in any significant consequences. While public outrage ma…

It's weird to see this naivete about the US system, as if US social media doesn't have its ways of dealing with wrongthink, or the once again naive assumption that the average Chinese methods of dealing with unpleasant stuff is that dissimilar from how the US deals with it. I sometimes have the image that Americans think that if the all Chinese got to read Western produced pamphlet detailing the particulars of what h…

> I sometimes have the image that Americans think that if the all Chinese got to read Western produced pamphlet detailing the particulars of what happened in Tiananmen square, they would march en-masse on the CCP HQ, and by the next week they'd turn into a Western style democracy.

I'm sure some (probably a lot of) people think that, but I hope it never happens. I'm not keen on 'Western democracy' either - that's why, in my second response, I said that I see elections in the US and basically all other countries as just a change of administrators rather than systemic change. All those countries still put up strong guidelines on who can be politically active in their system which automatically eliminates any disruptive parties anyway. / It's like choosing what flavour of ice cream you want when you're hungry. You can choose vanilla, chocolate or pistachio, but you can never just get a curry, even if you're craving something salty.

> It's weird to see this naivete about the US system, as if US social media doesn't have its ways of dealing with wrongthink, or the once again naive assumption that the average Chinese methods of dealing with unpleasant stuff is that dissimilar from how the US deals with it.

I do think they are different to the extent that I described. Western countries typically give you the illusion of choice, whereas China, Russia and some other countries simply don't give you any choice and manage narratives differently. I believe both approaches are detrimental to the majority of people in either bloc.

Re: Qwen3-Max-Thinking

#226

Aghhh, I wished they release a model which outperforms Opus 4.5 in agentic coding in my earlier comments, seems I should wait more. But I am hopeful

The Chinese just distill western SOTA models to level up their models, because they are badly compute constrained. If you were pulling someone much weaker than you behind yourself in a race, they would be right on your heels, but also not really a threat. Unless they can figure out a more efficient way to run before you do.

But it is a threat when the performance difference is not worth the cost in the customers' eyes.

Re: Qwen3-Max-Thinking

#227

Is this available on Open Router yet? I want it to go head-to-head against Gemini 3 Flash which is the king of playing Mafia so far https://mafia-arena.com

See also

* https://lmarena.ai/leaderboard — crowd-sourced head-to-head battles between models using ELO

* https://dashboard.safe.ai/ — CAIS' incredible dashboard (cited in OP)

* https://clocks.brianmoore.com/ — a visual comparison of how well models can draw a clock. A new clock is drawn every minute

* https://eqbench.com/ — emotional intelligence benchmarks for LLMs

* https://www.ocrarena.ai/battle — OCR battles, ELO

Re: Qwen3-Max-Thinking

#228
Benchmarks pasted here, with top scores highlighted. Overall Qwen Max is pretty competitive with the others here.

  Capability                            Benchmark           GPT-5.2-Thinking   Claude-Opus-4.5   Gemini 3 Pro   DeepSeek V3.2   Qwen3-Max-Thinking
  Knowledge                             MMLUPro             87.4               89.5              *89.8*         85.0            85.7            
  Knowledge                             MMLURedux           95.0               95.6              *95.9*         94.5            92.8            
  Knowledge                             CEval               90.5               92.2              93.4           92.9            *93.7*      
  STEM                                  GPQA                *92.4*             87.0              91.9           82.4            87.4           
  STEM                                  HLE                 35.5               30.8              *37.5*         25.1            30.2           
  Reasoning                             LiveCodeBench v6    87.7               84.8              *90.7*         80.8            85.9           
  Reasoning                             HMMT Feb 25         *99.4*             -                 97.5           92.5            98.0            
  Reasoning                             HMMT Nov 25         -                  -                 93.3           90.2            *94.7*      
  Reasoning                             IMOAnswerBench      *86.3*             84.0              83.3           78.3            83.9           
  Agentic Coding                        SWE Verified        80.0               *80.9*            76.2           73.1            75.3           
  Agentic Search                        HLE (w/ tools)      45.5               43.2              45.8           40.8            *49.8*     
  Instruction Following & Alignment     IFBench             *75.4*             58.0              70.4           60.7            70.9           
  Instruction Following & Alignment     MultiChallenge      57.9               54.2              *64.2*         47.3            63.3           
  Instruction Following & Alignment     ArenaHard v2        80.6               76.7              81.7           66.5            *90.2*      
  Tool Use                              Tau² Bench          80.9               *85.7*            85.4           80.3            82.1           
  Tool Use                              BFCLV4              63.1               *77.5*            72.5           61.2            67.7            
  Tool Use                              Vita Bench          38.2               *56.3*            51.6           44.1            40.9           
  Tool Use                              Deep Planning       *44.6*             33.9              23.3           21.6            28.7           
  Long Context                          AALCR               72.7               *74.0*            70.7           65.0            68.7
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