A post claims GPT-5 is now worse than a laptop-runnable Qwen3.6-27B
iamaliveix · x · 2026-07-29
A post claims GPT-5, once the best model in the world a year ago, is now worse than Qwen3.6-27B, an open-weight model that can run on a laptop. The takeaway is blunt: model progress is moving fast enough that yesterday’s frontier can look ordinary very quickly.
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