River's open recipe beats GPT-6 Astra Pro and Claude Opus 5.5 on text-to-SQL at <1% cost

ibab · x · 2026-10-08

River AI launched River Recipes, an open-source initiative turning research into vetted, reproducible training recipes. Its first recipe (RL + LoRA on Kimi K2.6, rebuilt from ReViSQL) pushes four open models to human-level 92.96% on Arcwise-Plat text-to-SQL, beating GPT-6 Astra Pro by 4 points at <2% of the cost, with GLM-5.3 Flash ahead by 4.6 points at just 0.5% cost.

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