Small Models, Big Brain: When 4 Billion Parameters Match GPT-4
Modern sub-10B models now rival last year's frontier AI on reasoning, tool use, and code. The benchmarks prove it.
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Alibaba's Qwen 3.5: Open Weights With Caveats
Qwen 3.5 offers a 397B MoE flagship and smaller local models under Apache 2.0, but Alibaba's benchmarks need independent testing.
Cohere's Tiny Aya: 70-Language AI That Runs on Your Phone Without Internet
A 3.35B parameter multilingual model outperforms larger competitors on underserved languages - and runs locally on consumer hardware. Privacy-first AI for the rest of the world.
OpenClaw's Creator Joins OpenAI - What Now for Independence?
Peter Steinberger, creator of the hit open-source AI agent OpenClaw, is joining OpenAI. What does that mean for independent AI tools and Europe's brain drain?
Tiiny AI Pocket Lab: Scrutinizing Its 120B Claim
Tiiny AI says its 300-gram Pocket Lab runs 120B models locally. The design is plausible, but performance and privacy claims remain unverified.
GLM-4.7: The $3 Coding Model That Beats Claude on Benchmarks
China's Zhipu AI released an open-weight model that beats Claude Sonnet 4.5 on tool-use benchmarks. It costs $3/month. The Flash version runs on your laptop.