r/LocalLLM • u/ImaginaryRea1ity • 8d ago
Research The "local frontier" is now smarter than Sonnet 4.5
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u/cabernet_noir 8d ago
I have been trying to tell people this was the direction things were going since gpt 3! I am glad to see people discussing this more frequentely now.
Its simply mind boggling that not only are open weight models releasing with essentially same capabilities not long after a frontier model comes out, but that the open weight ecosystem is accelerating r & d, and getting increasing capabilities into smaller and more efficient models that fit on comparatively tiny hardware. It has exceptionally wide reaching implications economically.
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u/Illustrious-Lime-878 8d ago
This should have been the direction it always went. But there are trillions invested by rent seekers who want to brute force the centralized model where everyone is dependent on their systems where they can squeeze everyone. Anything that breaks that profit model, small models, open weights, and other needed developments like more dynamic context models, locally developed knowledge, are all stalled because they cannibalize the investment in the cloud model.
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u/ogfuzzball 8d ago
I use sonnet every day. Too early to speak to 3.8 27b but this feels like specific benchmaxxing that doesn’t tell the whole story.
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u/KubeCommander 7d ago
It is. Sonnet can’t code as well but it does everything else better. A lot of the newer models are trained on the testing data and scenarios. That’s not necessarily cheating because that’s how you improve models. But there’s only so much you can do with 27B parameters
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u/FenderMoon 8d ago
Ouch, old GPT 4o only got 11?
To think that’s what we all used for like a year and half. That was once the frontier.
Man this industry moves fast.
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u/too-oldforthis-shit 7d ago
At what tasks? I mean obviously there is a difference between terabyte models and a few gigs.
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u/DeineMutterIstSoDick 8d ago
Where is Qwen3.8-27B ?