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Public story · 2026-03-15 · source-backed
An uncensored distillation of Claude Opus 4.6's outputs into a redistributable local model hit 573 upvotes on r/LocalLLaMA. A live demonstration of the distillation IP issue — Claude's capability extracted in direct violation of Anthropic's ToS. r/LocalLLaMA
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A second-generation distillation of Qwen3.5 targeting Claude Opus 4.6 reasoning patterns dropped on HuggingFace (151 upvotes on r/LocalLLaMA). Available in 40B and 122B with 'reg,' 'uncensored' (Heretic), and 'Rough House' variants. The demand signal is clear: people want Opus...
Alibaba released Qwen3.6-27B on April 22. Dense architecture. Open weights. 77.2% on SWE-bench Verified, within 3.7 points of Claude Opus 4.6. On SkillsBench, it scores 48.2% versus its own 397B MoE predecessor's 30.0%. That's a 77% improvement with 14.8x fewer parameters. Let...
Moonshot AI dropped Kimi K2.6 today and the numbers are hard to ignore. One trillion parameters total, 32 billion active per token across 384 experts, 256K context window, and native multimodal input. It scores 58.6 on SWE-Bench Pro versus GPT-5.4's 57.7 and Claude Opus 4.6's...
DeepSeek released V4 on April 24 and the numbers demand attention. V4-Pro is 1.6 trillion parameters total with 49 billion active, MIT-licensed, native 1M-token context. It scores 80.6% on SWE-bench Verified, putting it within 0.2 points of Claude Opus 4.6. On Terminal-Bench 2...
A solo Claude Opus 4.5 agent spent $9 and 20 minutes building a retro game. It was broken. The same model, wrapped in Anthropic's multi-agent harness, spent $200 over 6 hours and produced a fully playable game with physics, sprite editors, and AI integration. Anthropic's engin...
Anthropic released Claude Fable 5.1 on September 1. Claude Code v2.1.257 made it the default Fable model at 17:53 UTC that day, with a 1M-token context window, $10 per million input tokens, $50 per million output, and $0.25 per million on cache reads (claude-code CHANGELOG). B...
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