SovereignAI Boosts Qwen to Near-Opus for $450K

SovereignAI claims to have enhanced the open-weight Qwen3.5-397B model to rival Opus 4.8 using π-shaped Continual Learning. This breakthrough reportedly cost only $450,000 in compute, proving open models can near frontier performance cheaply.

2026-07-28 ~ 2026-07-28 · 4 related posts

• SovereignAI says continual learning on Qwen3.5-397B can match Opus 4.8 for $450k — schwarzjn_ · 2026-07-28
• Open-weight Qwen3.5-397B plus continual learning reportedly reaches Opus 4.8-level performance for $450k — WeijiaShi2 · 2026-07-28
• Continual learning on Qwen3.5-397B is said to match Opus 4.8 for about $450k — josh_wills · 2026-07-28

1 near-duplicate retellings: schwarzjn_