Signal65: A model that fits in 128GB now matches Claude Opus 5 on agentic work, within 5% of a 2.4T flagship
ryanshrout · x · 2026-10-09
Signal65's PINNACLE benchmark shows Qwen3.8-Flash-Next slightly outscoring Claude Opus 5 and GPT-6 Sol on agentic tasks at medium effort, landing within 5% of the 2.4-trillion-parameter Qwen3.8 flagship with 13x fewer parameters.
- A 4-bit build fits into the 128GB unified memory of DGX Spark / RTX Spark devices
- Hosted frontier models are still faster and make 2-3x fewer errors at max effort
- For background agents, local deployment is now competitive on cost and data control, strengthening hybrid designs
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