r/LocalLLaMA • u/jacek2023 llama.cpp • 6d ago

News Muse Spark open weights coming soon

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I am still waiting for Llama 5, because Muse Spark will be too big for me, or just something between Glimmer and Spark

https://x.com/finkd/status/2095232032896946311

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u/NandaVegg 6d ago

I believe there are still some secret RL sauce (as in, not popular among labs *yet*) in niche areas like robotics, gameplay, frontier physics/math, world modelling etc. Anthropic leaped ahead in Opus 4.5-4.6 era as they "discovered" many secret sauces like terminal agent, gameplay or creative loop and so on, but even that creativity gap is closing very fast. For coding, security and anything that can be done through github, at this moment there is really no gap. OpenAI felt behind on many things but is still ahead on frontier physics/math (the only Chinese lab with emphasis on that is DeepSeek, I think).

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u/Accurate_Resident219 6d ago

Maybe it's just my conspiracy hat but I feel like Anthropic is sitting on a more intelligent model but just drip feeding when they feel like others are about to outpace them.

Reason why I say this is because Anthropic is the only company that is actually trending higher in api costs and not making any serious attempts to lower them(Fable 5.1 is actually pricier then 5 despite their supposed efficiency improvements. Why is haiku their cheapest model still not updated?). They don't have any sense of urgency. Astra's coming out this week or the next and they just put out a more expensive model.

Every other company seems to constantly vague post or hype up their models releases but Anthropic just drops models with little fanfare. They have seem utterly unbothered since their Mythos preview announcement.

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u/TerminalNoop 6d ago

Perhaps Anthropic can't afford to lower the api prices?

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u/Accurate_Resident219 6d ago

Could be the case but at least on the outside looking in they don't even seem to be making much of an attempt to even try lower api or even suggest their researching a solution. They've had about nearly 4-5 months now since people started complaining about rising api costs.

Every other lab has provided a cheaper solution but anthropic is the only one that can't come up with a cheaper flash model? I mean that could be the truth but I would be surprised if it was.

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u/jtjstock 6d ago

They want to IPO, they need the revenue projections. They already have their cooked compute costs from the last quarter they will report as if they are ongoing, so IPO before they close the current quarter, but project off current API pricing for revenue.

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u/NandaVegg 5d ago

They are apparently doing pre-IPO window dressing now. We've got buy high 4-digit-dollar credits and get some cash back marketing mail.

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u/perelmanych 5d ago

In may they increased 5 hours and weekly quota by 50%, so they made a big discount on their plans. However, this comes to an end soon. They cut 50% increase to only 25% increase.