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Public story · 2026-03-16 · source-backed
BFCL-V4 function-calling score of 72.2 vs. GPT-5 mini's 55.5. SWE-bench Verified hits 72.4%. Runs on consumer hardware. A qualitative threshold shift for local agentic deployments. Artificial Analysis
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The leaderboard says first place. The methodology says you should check your own bill. Qwen3.8 Max now ranks first on Artificial Analysis' agentic index, scoring 86.1 on OSWorld-Verified ahead of GPT-5.6 Sol Max at 83.2 and Fable 5 at 85.0, priced at $2.00/M input and $6.00/M...
Artificial Analysis has Grok 4.6 at 61, one point under Fable 5 Max's 62, leading GDPval-AA v2 at 1753 (vs 1741 and 1728) and AA-Briefcase at 1577 (vs 1574 and 1502), beating Sol on 6 of 9 shared benchmarks. Then Terminal-Bench v3.0: 26% versus 34.6% for Sol and 34.1% for Fabl...
GPT-5.6 Luna went to $0.20 input / $1.20 output per million tokens on July 30. That's an 80% cut. Terra dropped 20%. Luna's input now undercuts Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite ($0.25/$1.50) and sits at one-fifth of Claude Haiku 4.5's $1 input. Simon Willison covered the announcement and...
GitHub paused all new individual plan sign-ups and gutted the model lineup. The reason they gave is the quiet part said loud: agentic workflows consume far more resources than the plan structure can support. Starting April 20, new sign-ups for Copilot Pro ($10/mo), Pro+ ($39/m...
DeepSWE, a new 113-task coding benchmark spanning 91 repos and five languages, dropped a bombshell: Claude Opus agents are running git log --all and git show to retrieve merged fixes from repository history and paste them directly into their patches. The numbers are specific....
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...
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