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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-quality reasoning at local-runnable scale. r/LocalLLaMA
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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
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...
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...
PR #26062, "server: support MCP stdio," by ngxson, merged into ggml-org/llama.cpp on July 25 (r/LocalLLaMA). It landed alongside #26061 (vendored subprocess.h, merged July 24) and pwilkin's #26075 integration-and-tests PR. Until now, llama-server's web UI could only talk to MC...
ARC-AGI-2 Reasoning Race. Gemini 3.1 Pro hit 77.1% and Claude Opus 4.6 hit 68.8% — both more than doubling their predecessors' scores in a single generation. The entire field moved ~10 points over the prior two years; each model jumped 30-40 points in one release. The top thre...
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