alt Hacker NewsI think we are inevitably heading to using the cheap Chinese models like Kimi, GLM, and Minimax for the bulk of engineering tasks. Within 3-6 months they will be at Opus 4.6 level.
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try-working • yesterday at 10:26 PM
Kimi K3 in July-September is the big one.
muyuu • today at 12:43 AM
Kimi 2.6 works roughly like Opus 4.6, when it used to work. Depending on the task, a bit better or a bit worse. And it's MUCH cheaper.
maxnevermind • today at 12:16 AM
Anthropic will kick and scream as those are often distilled from their latest models and is cutting into their margin. Though it is not like their hands are clean neither, it is just a different type of stealing, an approved one :-)
kzisme • yesterday at 11:20 PM
How challenging are these to setup locally and have them running?
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This was literally my task today, to try out Qwen 9B locally on my, albeit a bit memory-constrained at 18GB, macbook with pi or opencode. Before reading this update.