Tester: LongCat's website model is 'dumb as rocks' in Russian, far below parity claims
teortaxesTex · x · 2026-11-03
teortaxesTex tested LongCat's website model and found its CoT recognizable but ineffective — 'dumb as rocks' in Russian, around DeepSeek V4-Flash-Preview level, and short of 5.6 Sol tier, so he doesn't buy the parity claims, despite liking their papers and the original LongCat-Flash.
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