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Based on the benchmarks, it seems that Muse Glimmer barely edges out against Qwen3.6 27B, except for tool-calling skills (MCP, etc.). I wouldn't be surprised if they released it now because they are afraid they wouldn't beat Qwen3.8 27B.
Qwen3.6 27B is the go-to medium sized model for coding, so beating it is not a small achievement
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While composing a reply to a comment throwing tons of shade on American AI, I took some time to check out the commenter’s HN profile. Their comment history was about 50% such comments. Their submission history started with an article about how Russia was unfairly blamed for some hacking campaign. It’s entirely possible that this is not a foreign influence campaign. Perhaps there’s a group here that is simply anti-Ame…
There's literally a Chinese-funded influence campaign against American AI: https://openai.com/index/disrupting-malicious-uses-of-ai-dat...
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/aug/10/indonesia-clic...
https://humsci.stanford.edu/feature/political-post-real-or-m...
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While composing a reply to a comment throwing tons of shade on American AI, I took some time to check out the commenter’s HN profile. Their comment history was about 50% such comments. Their submission history started with an article about how Russia was unfairly blamed for some hacking campaign. It’s entirely possible that this is not a foreign influence campaign. Perhaps there’s a group here that is simply anti-Ame…
> Perhaps there’s a group here that is simply anti-American as its primary interest, and passionately so to upvote each other. Considering this site has international users, it's not hard to find this, especially right now. Hell, Canada is in this group currently.
We've never been the shining beacon of light we would claim to be, but we're so fucking awful now.
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the downvoting rings ( or bots ) are very active here. I think they're mostly bots, but who knows i guess
I don't think they're bots and I don't even think they're organized. In my experience with other communities, it only takes 3-5 people with a lot of free time to crush conversations they don't like. On a fast moving comment section a wrongthink comment can be buried into the bottom half of the comments with only a few early downvotes.
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> Only China can release good, open weight models and American companies can’t compete. Oh by the way all the spend is for nothing because China alone can release open-weight models thus destroying American AI. Let me be blunt and let me say: you don't understand why we people support Chinese models. 1. Chinese labs started with open weight models, US labs started with dooms day narrative 2. US VC based companies mus…
US companies published their research on transformers. The only reason Chinese companies have any models at all is open US research... Add distillation to that, and the entire Chinese AI sphere is really just an offshoot of public US AI information...
Regarding distillation, you can also say Anthropic and OpenAI stole /distilled books, articles, blogs from everyone who published things without knowing their work might be used against them
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Free models help move robots; a complement. I can foresee the models staying free.
Maybe you're right for smaller models, but for frontier models this is the tail wagging the dog. If China has exclusive frontier model capability in the future, that's an enormous commercial and geopolitical lever. They won't throw that away to sell a few more robots. Anything beyond their competitors' capabilities will remain closed.
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> Perhaps there’s a group here that is simply anti-American as its primary interest, and passionately so to upvote each other. Considering this site has international users, it's not hard to find this, especially right now. Hell, Canada is in this group currently.
I'm a 52 year old natural born US citizen whose ancestors have been here for generations and I'm currently anti-American. Why wouldn't I be? We've never been the shining beacon of light we would claim to be, but we're so fucking awful now.
Could you expand on what you mean by being "currently anti-American"?
I lament the comments saying this in any way redeems Meta (the company). The researchers releasing this stuff have almost nothing to do with Meta other than being bankrolled by the slaughterhouse. You aren't the customer, you are the pawn in big tech's game of thrones. Your good will is a commodity to be traded, almost literally. It will be used against you the moment it's convenient. This is open weights because Met…
I'd also argue this is the case for any company releasing open weights. They're not righteous, they're marketing. That's not necessarily a bad thing! They're releasing some great stuff for free and we benefit from that. Every company doing this has a motivation to not release these for free. Alibaba, Google, Moonshot, Thinking Machines, etc are not releasing their models for free because they love to. They want to gr…
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It’s rather amusing to me to read comments like this, and then simultaneously whenever a Chinese company or team releases open-weight models or whatever there is a giant round of applause, America is so behind, and there’s nothing but positive things to say about the intelligent, creative, and well-intentioned Chinese engineers (which is true, America certainly doesn’t have a monopoly on great people). Don’t you know…
While composing a reply to a comment throwing tons of shade on American AI, I took some time to check out the commenter’s HN profile. Their comment history was about 50% such comments. Their submission history started with an article about how Russia was unfairly blamed for some hacking campaign. It’s entirely possible that this is not a foreign influence campaign. Perhaps there’s a group here that is simply anti-Ame…
I would encourage dedicated readers here to aggressively and persistently discount the value of HN as a tastemaker and trendsetter.
HN is actually a trailing indicator on tastes and trends, essentially by design. Things only make it to the front page if they get submitted and voted upward by a large number of people. That means it’s all stuff that is public and seems cool to a bunch of random people browsing a website. Not exactly cutting edge.
Basically every community, online or not, over-indexes on its own importance. Like how random small towns can get so worried about international terrorists targeting them. To folks who love HN, of course the great forces of the world would be attracted to compete here. Look how obviously awesome it is, right?
Paul Graham said HN was set up on the theory that it would efficiently surface great ideas and entrepreneurs for Ycombinator. Needless to say, that did not pan out. (How often do you see PG or any YC leadership here anymore?) Honestly I am mystified as to why YC continues to operate it at all.