Qwen3.6 27b is ~10% worse than Opus 4.6 to be fair (though at a fraction of the size), but in exchange you get to run offline with complete privacy, no rate limiting, no refusals from any task, be it malware research or otherwise. Also my favorite reason: controlling the means of production.
Those are all well worth being a month behind frontier models.
It was as though MS actually built something amazing and Nokia was back to its roots of building solid, well designed phones.
UI was very forward thinking in the right ways. Buttery smooth, etc.
Of course it flopped because a bit late (arguable) so it lacked apps.
No idea why this couldn’t have been brought to android at least as a launcher or provide some kind of support to run Android apps. Just MS being MS —ordinary users/consumers aren’t their primary target in general.
It’s not possible for LLMs to achieve consciousness. This was already debunked decades ago (e.g Chinese room theorem, Searle, etc.). It’s surprising these debates are coming back again.
> The valuations of these companies are probably on the high side and I'd expect post IPO share values to drop quite a bit and would not personally consider buying anything until after that happens.
The problem is that you ARE buying them precisely at the high IPO prices if you have retirement/pension funds that are invested in market indexes.
Nope, you’ll be buying at whatever the price is several days after the IPO. This could easily be below IPO prices as has happened with many other companies.
What’s probably dumb is that none of those questions/concerns were brought up ahead of time (by either side).
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