Is it really? A 9B model is equivalent? Honest question, as I haven't spent that much time with the 9B variant or Flash 2.5. But that seems like a pretty bold claim for such a small model. I assumed Flash 2.5 was considerably larger, but maybe I'm wrong?

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ricardobeat 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Pretty much. It even beats it in a few benchmarks: https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/comparisons/qwen3-5-9b-...

Qwen 3.6 and Gemma 4 small models are in a league of their own.

	▲	verdverm 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Second this, they keep getting performance upgrades too. Z Lab had been publishing dflash addons and boosting their tgen 2-3x. I'm looking at doing comparative evals right now https://huggingface.co/collections/z-lab/dflash