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SpeakoFlow Mini fine-tunes Qwen3.5-0.8B to apply only the corrections a speaker actually made and leave the rest alone. On the author's English-only benchmark it scored 70.7% against GPT-5.6 Luna's 65.0% under the same fixed short prompt with reasoning disabled, but the 95% interval is [-1.5, +12.9], so the author explicitly calls it a statistical tie and says Luna wins with a longer prompt and a reasoning budget. (r/LocalLLaMA) The controlled result holds: fine-tuning moved the untuned base from 47.3% to 70.7%, +23.4 points at [+16.3, +30.3]. I wish more model posts were written like this one.
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July 9, across VS Code, Visual Studio, Copilot CLI, the cloud agent, github.com, GitHub Mobile, JetBrains, Xcode, and Eclipse. Sol is the high-reasoning tier at $5/1M in, $30/1M out, gated to Pro+/Max/Business/Enterprise. Terra is the balanced default at $2.50/$15. Luna is fas...
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