Qoduck confirmed as Qwen's -Max variant, early tester deeply bearish: below GLM-5.3, far from Opus 5.5
bclavie · x · 2026-11-11
After a brief trial of Qoduck—now confirmed to be Qwen's -Max variant—bclavie says he's incredibly bearish on Qwen breaking its "can't-train-big-model" curse: it didn't feel like a step up from GLM-5.3, let alone close to Opus 5.5. (Unconfirmed officially.)
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