Amazing. To me it feels like GLM 5.1, Kimi 2.6, DeepSeek 4 are all competitive both with each other and with the American models. Truly a great time to be alive.
I would like to see more effort making the flash variants work for coding. They are super economical to use to brute force boilerplate and drudgery, and I wonder just how good they can be with the right harness, if it provides the right UX for the steering they require.
As much as vibe coding has captured the zeitgeist, I think long term using them as tools to generate code at the hands of skilled developers makes more sense. Companies can only go so long spending obscene amounts of money for subpar unmaintainable code.
>To me it feels like GLM 5.1, Kimi 2.6, DeepSeek 4 are all competitive both with each other and with the American models.
Yes, at least probably with each other
>Truly a great time to be alive.
Do wish outcome had been better for those whose work ended up in the training sets, wish competition could’ve found ways to agree on distillation practices, wish globally we’d planned as fast as we’re developing…
Tremendous excitement too