alt Hacker NewsBit of a tangent, but I'm pleased to see that Qwen 3.5 35B is tied with GPT-5.4 and just 2 points behind 4.6 Opus. That little model is so impressively capable and fast! I'm frequently still surprised that I have that level of capability and speed running locally on my laptop.
Nemotron-Cascade-2-30B-A3B is worth checking out too at the size - I found it even better than Qwen 3.5 35B! I ran it slowly but successfully on a 8GB 1070GTX with CPU offload.