We also had GLM-5.3 flash and Qwen 3.8 Flash Next, everyone's getting flashed and I think it's a good trend.
Almost suspect that the rate of improvement to post-training is so fast that small models have an advantage - it takes much more compute to train a bigger model, so the flash models are just running in circles (well, not exactly of course) around the larger models right now.
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We also had GLM-5.3 flash and Qwen 3.8 Flash Next, everyone's getting flashed and I think it's a good trend.
Almost suspect that the rate of improvement to post-training is so fast that small models have an advantage - it takes much more compute to train a bigger model, so the flash models are just running in circles (well, not exactly of course) around the larger models right now.