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Public story · 2026-03-20 · source-backed
An r/LocalLLaMA thread with 74 comments debates whether MiniMax will keep M2.7 open-weights now that it approaches Claude 4.6 Opus performance. MiniMax shipped M2.5 open; M2.7's frontier positioning creates financial incentive to pivot API-only. The discussion reflects broader community anxiety about open-weights sustainability at commercial-tier quality.
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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...
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
An r/singularity post with demo video claims two new Claude checkpoints, claude-marshmallow-eap and claude-melon-eap, could release as early as this week. A KuCoin news flash reports the same two model strings from social-media leaks. No official confirmation, no parameters, n...
Anthropic's status page logged elevated errors from 04:50 UTC to 07:36 UTC covering Mythos 5, Fable 5 and Opus 5, resolved at 08:30 UTC, with Opus 5 and Fable 5 stabilizing first. (r/ClaudeAI) The recurring complaint in that thread is that failed requests still consume the fiv...
A builder gave three agents one prompt to convert a 2.1MB single-file C shooter, about 600k tokens, far past every context window involved, with no follow-ups. Claude Code on Opus 5 finished in 21 minutes at 1,759 lines. Qwen 3.8 27B in FP8 on vLLM with full 262,144 context on...
A Reddit post about giving Claude Code a cheap coworker hit 1,123 upvotes and 115 comments on r/ClaudeAI. Read together with the Uber story above, this is the demand signal paired with its solution. The setup: route routine implementation work to a $0.02/call model (Gemini Fla...
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