After extensive testing, this dev says open-source models are now neck and neck with frontier labs
Fluffy-Ad-889 · reddit · 2026-09-05
The author argues that after extensive testing he can no longer tell the best open-source models from frontier-lab ones, and claims labs are heavily marketing token prices ahead of IPOs — drawing parallels to the dot-com bubble where technology survived but business models may not. In his own cybersecurity network project, local models like DeepSeek V4 Flash perform on par with the best frontier offerings.
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