Small Models Are Rapidly Approaching the Frontier
toadlyBroodle · reddit · 2026-07-09
A post argues that the industry should focus on the "speed" of capability improvements rather than one-off leaderboard rankings. The author shares data showing that the best open-source coding model capable of fitting on a single consumer-grade GPU scored only 20.6% on SWE-bench Verified in December 2024, but has now surged to 77.2%, catching up to the closed-source frontier at an accelerated pace.
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