Jokes on you. We are already running Deepseekv4Flash, Mimo2.5, MiniMax2.7, Qwen3-397B locally in very affordable hardware. These models are in the real of Opus4.6. For those of us a bit crazy, we are running KimiK2.6, GLM5.1 and more ...

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root_axis 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I have two A100s and have been playing with local models for years. There's definitely moments where they are quite impressive, but small context sizes and unreliability become immediately obvious.

> For those of us a bit crazy, we are running KimiK2.6, GLM5.1

Yes, those can compare to Opus, but you can't run those unquantized for less than $400k in hardware.

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doctorpangloss 5 hours ago | parent [-]

Two Mac Studio M3 Ultra 512GB and 1 USB cable can run all those models - maybe about $30,000 in hardware - and based on my benchmarks, those Mac Studios were twice as fast as the A100s on Deepseek v4 Flash, which has a quantization but not really a lossy one.

	▲	root_axis 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		That cannot run KimiK2.6 or GLM5.1 i.e models within the ballpark of anything offered by frontier companies.

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binyu 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

They all still fall short of Opus 4.6, definitely though. They are good but fail on extremely complex tasks, in contrast with a frontier model that will keep on trying until it succeeds or exhausts the solutions space.

	▲	julianlam 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Not by much, and moving goalposts makes for a bad comparison. Local open weight models are already more powerful than frontier models from only a year back. If you believe what you read here, the gap is closing fast.