Kinda cool that if you were reasonably wealthy, you could spend around 100k on compute and have something with similar performance to Opus running entirely locally.
You can get there a lot cheaper than 100k. You just need a machine good enough to run Qwen 3.6 27b, and use a good coding harness.
There’s no comparison between qwen 3.6 / these models though. Not even close.
Not on its own, but take a look at the benchmarks for ATLAS. It does some clever tricks to compensate for the capabilities of the smaller model, so it ends up punching far above its weight. One key trick they use is to have the model produce a few shots, and then use a small and fast model to do a heuristic to score which ones are promising. And turns out that dramatically improves the quality of the output.
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Where do you get a Lamborghini for just 100k?
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Might even draw less power than a lambo
