SovereignAI says continual learning on Qwen3.5-397B can match Opus 4.8 for $450k
schwarzjn_ · x · 2026-07-28
- SovereignAI says it found that applying its π-shaped continual learning method to an open-weight model, Qwen3.5-397B, can produce a genuinely frontier-level model.
- The team claims the result is competitive with Opus 4.8 for roughly $450k in compute.
- A full technical report and open-source models are promised soon, making this both a research result and a noteworthy model-performance claim.
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