Frontier models now lead local models by only about 6 months
Anxious_Current2593 · reddit · 2026-09-08
A Reddit post points out that the gap between frontier and local models has shrunk to roughly six months — plus a few quantization tweaks — before today's state-of-the-art ends up running on a gaming PC. The post resonates as a community observation of how fast open models catch up with closed ones.
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