[HN Gopher] Qwen3: Think deeper, act faster
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       Qwen3: Think deeper, act faster
        
       Author : synthwave
       Score  : 817 points
       Date   : 2025-04-28 20:44 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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 (TXT) w3m dump (qwenlm.github.io)
        
       | natrys wrote:
       | They have got pretty good documentation too[1]. And Looks like we
       | have day 1 support for all major inference stacks, plus so many
       | size choices. Quants are also up because they have already worked
       | with many community quant makers.
       | 
       | Not even going into performance, need to test first. But what a
       | stellar release just for attention to all these peripheral
       | details alone. _This_ should be the standard for major release,
       | instead of whatever Meta was doing with Llama 4 (hope Meta can
       | surprise us at LlamaCon tomorrow though).
       | 
       | [1] https://qwen.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
        
         | kadushka wrote:
         | _they have already worked with many community quant makers_
         | 
         | I'm curious, who are the community quant makers?
        
           | tough wrote:
           | nvm
        
             | kadushka wrote:
             | I understand the context, I'm asking for names.
        
               | dredds wrote:
               | By downloads:
               | https://huggingface.co/spaces/mvaloatto/TCTF
        
           | natrys wrote:
           | I had Unsloth[1] and Bartowski[2] in mind. Both said on
           | Reddit that Qwen had allowed them access to weights before
           | release to ensure smooth sailing.
           | 
           | [1] https://huggingface.co/unsloth
           | 
           | [2] https://huggingface.co/bartowski
        
             | Gracana wrote:
             | https://huggingface.co/LoneStriker for exl2 quants.
        
         | sroussey wrote:
         | Well, the link to huggingface is broken at the moment.
        
           | daemonologist wrote:
           | It's up now: https://huggingface.co/collections/Qwen/qwen3-67
           | dd247413f0e2...
           | 
           | The space loads eventually as well; might just be that HF is
           | under a lot of load.
        
             | tough wrote:
             | Thank you!!
        
             | sroussey wrote:
             | Yep, there now. Do wish they included ONNX though.
        
         | dkga wrote:
         | This cannot be stressed enough.
        
         | Jayakumark wrote:
         | Second this , they patched all major llm frameworks like
         | llama.cpp, transformers , vllm, sglang, ollama etc weeks before
         | for qwen3 support and released model weights everywhere around
         | same time. Like a global movie release. Cannot undermine mine
         | this level of detail and effort.
        
           | echelon wrote:
           | Alibaba, I have a huge favor to ask if you're listening. You
           | guys very obviously care about the community.
           | 
           | We need an answer to gpt-image-1. Can you please pair Qwen
           | with Wan? That would literally change the art world forever.
           | 
           | gpt-image-1 is an almost wholesale replacement of ComfyUI and
           | SD/Flux ControlNets. I can't underscore how big of a deal it
           | is. As such, OpenAI has leapt ahead and threatens to start
           | capturing more of the market for AI images and video. The
           | expense of designing and training a multimodal model presents
           | challenges to the open source community, and it's unlikely
           | that Black Forest Labs or an open effort can do it. It's
           | really a place where only Alibaba can shine.
           | 
           | If we get an open weights multimodal image gen model that we
           | can fine tune, then it's game over - open models will be 100%
           | the future. If not, then the giants are going to start
           | controlling media creation. It'll be the domain of OpenAI and
           | Google alone. Firing a salvo here will keep media creation
           | highly competitive.
           | 
           | So please, pretty please work on an LLM/Diffusion multimodal
           | image gen model. It would change the world instantly.
           | 
           | And keep up the great work with Wan Video! It's easily going
           | to surpass Kling and Veo. The controllability is already well
           | worth the tradeoffs.
        
             | bergheim wrote:
             | > That would literally change the art world forever.
             | 
             | In what world? Some small percentage up or who knows, and
             | _that_ revolutionized art? Not a few years ago, but now,
             | this.
             | 
             | Wow.
        
               | Tepix wrote:
               | Forever, as in for a few weeks... ;-)
        
               | Imustaskforhelp wrote:
               | oh boy I had a smirk after reading this comment because
               | its partially true.
               | 
               | When deepseek r1 came, it lit the markets on fire
               | (atleast american) and then many thought it would be the
               | best forever / for a long time.
               | 
               | Then came grok3 , then claude 3.7 , then gemini 2.5 pro.
               | 
               | Now people comment that gemini 2.5 pro is going to stay
               | forever. When deepseek came, there were articles like
               | this on HN: "Of course, open source is the future of AI"
               | When Gemini 2.5 Pro came there were articles like this:
               | "Of course, google build its own gpu's , and they had the
               | deepnet which specialized in reinforced learning, Of
               | course they were going to go to the Top"
               | 
               | We as humans are just trying to justify why certain
               | company built something more powerful than other
               | companies. But the fact is, that AI is still a black box,
               | People were literally say for llama 4:
               | 
               | "I think llama 4 is going to be the best open source
               | model, Zuck doesn't like to lose"
               | 
               | Nothing is forever, its all opinions and current
               | benchmarks. We want the best thing in benchmark and then
               | we want an even better thing, and we would justify why /
               | how that better thing was built.
               | 
               | Every time, I saw a new model rise, people used to say it
               | would be forever.
               | 
               | And every time, Something new beat to it and people
               | forgot the last time somebody said something like
               | forever.
               | 
               | So yea, deepseek r1 -> grok 3 -> claude 3.7 -> gemini 2.5
               | pro (Current state of the art?), each transition was just
               | some weeks IIRC.
               | 
               | Your comment is a literal fact that people of AI forget.
        
               | horhay wrote:
               | It's pretty much expected that everything is "world
               | shaking" in the modern day tech world. Now whether it's
               | true or not is a different thing everytime. I'm fairly
               | certain even the 4o image gen model has shown weaknesses
               | that other approaches didn't, but you know, newer means
               | absolutely better and will change the world.
        
             | Imustaskforhelp wrote:
             | I don't know, the AI image quality has gotten good but it's
             | still slop. We are forgetting what makes art, well art.
             | 
             | I am not even an artist but yeah I see people using AI for
             | photos and they were so horrendous pre chatgpt-imagen that
             | I had literally told one person if you are going to use AI
             | images, might as well use chatgpt for it.
             | 
             | Also though I would also like to get something like
             | chatgpt-image generating qualities from an open source
             | model. I think what we are really looking for is cheap free
             | labour of alibaba team.
             | 
             | We are wanting for them / anyone to create open source tool
             | so that anyone can then use it, thus reducing the monopoly
             | of openai but that is not what most people are wishing for,
             | they are wishing for this to lead to reduction of price so
             | that they can use it either on their own hardware for very
             | few cost or some providers on openrouter and its alikes for
             | cheap image generation with good quality.
             | 
             | Earlier people used to pay artists, then people started
             | using stock photos, then Ai image gen came, and now we have
             | gotten AI image pretty much good with chatgpt and now
             | people don't even want to pay chatgpt that much money, they
             | want to use it for literal cents.
             | 
             | Not sure how long this trend will continue, when deepseek
             | r1 launched, I remember people being happy that it was open
             | source but 99% people couldn't self host it like I can't
             | because of its needs and we were still using API but just
             | because it was open source, it reduced the price way too
             | much forcing others to reduce it as well, really making a
             | cultural pricing shift in AI.
             | 
             | We are in this really weird spot as humans. We want to earn
             | a lot of money yet we don't want to pay anybody money/ want
             | free labour from open source which is just disincentivizing
             | open source because now people like to think its free
             | labour and they might be right.
        
               | lovestory wrote:
               | Even Katy Perry started using AI for her tour backdrop
               | visuals and it looks... well, horrendous
               | https://twitter.com/bklynb4by/status/1915514396421337171
        
               | fkyoureadthedoc wrote:
               | On the other hand, ChatGPT image generation is a lot of
               | fun to use. I'd never pay a human artist to make the meme
               | tier images I use it for.
        
       | Philpax wrote:
       | This is a much more compelling release than Llama 4! Excited to
       | dig in and play with it.
        
       | miohtama wrote:
       | > The pre-training process consists of three stages. In the first
       | stage (S1), the model was pretrained on over 30 trillion tokens
       | with a context length of 4K tokens. This stage provided the model
       | with basic language skills and general knowledge.
       | 
       | As this is in trillions, where does this amount of material come
       | from?
        
         | tough wrote:
         | Synthetic Data (after reasoning breakthroughs feels like more
         | AI laabs are betting for synthetic data to scale.)
         | 
         | wonder at what price
        
           | Havoc wrote:
           | If they're using vision models to extract pdf data then they
           | can't be shy on throwing money at it
        
         | bionhoward wrote:
         | The raw CommonCrawl has 100 trillion tokens, admittedly some
         | duplicated. RedPajama has 30T deduplicated. That's most of the
         | way there, before including PDFs and Alibaba's other data
         | sources (Does Common Crawl include Chinese pages? Edit: Yes)
        
       | oofbaroomf wrote:
       | Probably one of the best parts of this is MCP support baked in.
       | Open source models have generally struggled with being agentic,
       | and it looks like Qwen might break this pattern. The Aider bench
       | score is also pretty good, although not nearly as good as Gemini
       | 2.5 Pro.
        
         | tough wrote:
         | qwen2.5-instruct-1M and qwq-32b where already great at regular
         | non MCP tool usage, so great to see this i agree!
         | 
         | I like gemini 2.5 pro a lot bc its fast af but it struggles
         | some times when context is half used to effectively use tools
         | and make edits and breaks a lot of shit (on cursor)
        
       | daemonologist wrote:
       | It sounds like these models think a _lot_ , seems like the
       | benchmarks are run with a thinking budget of 32k tokens - the
       | full context length. (Paper's not published yet so I'm just going
       | by what's on the website.) Still, hugely impressive if the
       | published benchmarks hold up under real world use - the A3B in
       | particular, outperforming QWQ, could be handy for CPU inference.
       | 
       | Edit: The larger models have 128k context length. 32k thinking
       | comes from the chart which looks like it's for the 235B, so not
       | full length.
        
       | minimaxir wrote:
       | A 0.6B LLM with a 32k context window is interesting, even if it
       | was trained using only distillation (which is not ideal as it
       | misses nuance). That would be a fun base model for fine-tuning.
       | 
       | Out of all the Qwen3 models on Hugging Face, it's the most
       | downloaded/hearted.
       | https://huggingface.co/collections/Qwen/qwen3-67dd247413f0e2...
        
         | jasonjmcghee wrote:
         | these 0.5 and 0.6B models etc. are _fantastic_ for using as a
         | draft model in speculative decoding. lm studio makes this super
         | easy to do - i have it on like every model i play with now
         | 
         | my concern on these models though unfortunately is it seems
         | like architectures very a bit so idk how it'll work
        
           | mmoskal wrote:
           | Spec decoding only depends on the tokenizer used. It's
           | transfering either the draft token sequence or at most draft
           | logits to the main model.
        
             | jasonjmcghee wrote:
             | I suppose that makes sense, for some reason I was under the
             | impression that the models need to be aligned / have the
             | same tuning or they'd have different probability
             | distributions and would reject the draft model really
             | often.
        
             | jasonjmcghee wrote:
             | Could be an lm studio thing, but the qwen3-0.6B model works
             | as a draft model for the qwen3-32B and qwen3-30B-A3B but
             | not the qwen3-235B-A22B model
        
           | Havoc wrote:
           | Have you had any luck getting actual speedups? All the
           | combinations I've tried (smallest 0.6 + largest I can fit
           | into 24gb)...all got me slowdowns despite decent hitrate
        
       | cye131 wrote:
       | These performance numbers look absolutely incredible. The MoE
       | outperforms o1 with 3B active parameters?
       | 
       | We're really getting close to the point where local models are
       | good enough to handle practically every task that most people
       | need to get done.
        
         | thierrydamiba wrote:
         | How do people typically do napkin math to figure out if their
         | machine can "handle" a model?
        
           | hn8726 wrote:
           | Wondering if I'll get corrected, but my _napkin math_ is
           | looking at the model download size -- I estimate it needs at
           | least this amount of vram/ram, and usually the difference in
           | size between various models is large enough not to worry if
           | the real requirements are size +5% or 10% or 15%. LM studio
           | also shows you which models your machine should handle
        
           | daemonologist wrote:
           | The ultra-simplified napkin math is 1 GB (V)RAM per 1 billion
           | parameters, at a 4-5 bit-per-weight quantization. This
           | usually gives most of the performance of the full size model
           | and leaves a little bit of room for context, although not
           | necessarily the full supported size.
        
             | bionhoward wrote:
             | Wouldn't it be 1GB (billion bytes) per billion parameters
             | when each parameter is 1 byte (FP8)?
             | 
             | Seems like 4 bit quantized models would use 1/2 the number
             | of billions of parameters in bytes, because each parameter
             | is half a byte, right?
        
               | daemonologist wrote:
               | Yes, it's more a rule of thumb than napkin math I
               | suppose. The difference allows space for the KV cache
               | which scales with both model size and context length,
               | plus other bits and bobs like multimodal encoders which
               | aren't always counted into the nameplate model size.
        
             | aitchnyu wrote:
             | How much memory would correspond to a 100000 and a million
             | tokens?
        
           | derbaum wrote:
           | Very rough (!) napkin math: for a q8 model (almost lossless)
           | you have parameters = VRAM requirement. For q4 with some
           | performance loss it's roughly half. Then you add a little bit
           | for the context window and overhead. So a 32B model q4 should
           | run comfortably on 20-24 GB.
           | 
           | Again, very rough numbers, there's calculators online.
        
           | samsartor wrote:
           | The absolutely dumbest way is to compare the number of
           | parameters with your bytes of RAM. If you have 2 or more
           | bytes of RAM for every parameter you can generally run the
           | model easily (eg 3B model with 8GB of RAM). 1 byte per
           | parameter and it is still possible, but starts to get tricky.
           | 
           | Of course, there are lots of factors that can change the RAM
           | usage: quantization, context size, KV cache. And this says
           | nothing about whether the model will respond quickly enough
           | to be pleasant to use.
        
         | the_arun wrote:
         | I'm dreaming of a time when commodity CPUs run LLMs for
         | inference & serve at scale.
        
         | stavros wrote:
         | > We're really getting close to the point where local models
         | are good enough to handle practically every task that most
         | people need to get done.
         | 
         | After trying to implement a simple assistant/helper with
         | GPT-4.1 and getting some dumb behavior from it, I doubt even
         | _proprietary_ models are good enough for every task.
        
           | Alifatisk wrote:
           | What if GPT-4.1 was just the wrong model to use?
        
             | stavros wrote:
             | If OpenAI's flagship model can't add a simple calendar
             | event, that doesn't do much to assuage my disappointment...
        
               | Alifatisk wrote:
               | I remember vividly that the focus on GPT-4.1 to speak
               | more humane and be more philosophical when speaking. I
               | remember something like that. That model is special and
               | is not meant like a next generation of their other models
               | like 4o and o3.
               | 
               | You should try a different model for your task.
        
               | 85392_school wrote:
               | I think you're confusing GPT-4.5 with GPT-4.1. GPT-4.1 is
               | their recommended model for non-reasoning API use.
        
       | margorczynski wrote:
       | Any news on some viable successor of LLMs that could take us to
       | AGI? As I see they still can't solve some fundamental stuff to
       | make it really work in any scenario (halucinations, reasoning,
       | grounding in reality, updating long-term memory, etc.)
        
         | a3w wrote:
         | AGIs probably comes from neurosymbolic AI. But LLMs could be
         | the neuro-part of that.
         | 
         | On the other hand, LLM progress feels like bullshit, gaming
         | benchmarks and other problems occured. So either in two years
         | all hail our AGI/AMI (machine intelligence) overlords, or the
         | bubble bursts.
        
           | kristofferR wrote:
           | You can't possibly use LLMs day to day if you think the
           | benchmarks are solely gamed. Yes, there's been some cases,
           | but the progress in real-life usage tracks the benchmarks
           | overall. Gemini 2.5 Pro for example is absurdly more capable
           | than models from a year ago.
        
             | horhay wrote:
             | They aren't lying in the way that LLMs have been seeing
             | improvement, but benchmarks suggesting that LLMs are still
             | scaling exponentially are not reflective of where they
             | truly are.
        
               | a3w wrote:
               | AI 2027 had a good hint at what LLMs cannot do: robotics.
               | So perhaps the singularity is near, after all, since this
               | is pretty much my feeling too: LLMs are not skynet. But
               | it is easier to pay people off in capitalism, than to
               | engineer the torment nexus and threaten them into
               | following. So it does not need killer robots+factories,
               | if human have better chances in life by cooperating with
               | LLMs instead.
        
           | bongodongobob wrote:
           | Idk man, I use GPT to one-shot admin tasks all day long.
           | 
           | "Give me a PowerShell script to get all users with an email
           | address, and active license, that have not authed through AD
           | or Azure in the last 30 days. Now take those, compile all the
           | security groups they are members of, and check out the file
           | share to find any root level folders that these members have
           | access to and check the audit logs to see if anyone else has
           | accessed them. If not, dump the paths into a csv at
           | C:\temp\output.csv."
           | 
           | Can I write that myself? Yes. In 20 seconds? Absolutely not.
           | These things are saving me hours _daily_.
           | 
           | I used to save stuff like this and cobble the pieces together
           | to get things done. I don't save any of them anymore because
           | I can for the most part 1 shot anything I need.
           | 
           | Just because it's not discovering new physics doesn't mean
           | it's not insanely useful or valuable. LLMs have probably 5x'd
           | me.
        
           | ljosifov wrote:
           | Amusingly enough, people writing stuff like the above, to my
           | mind come over as doing what they are accusing LLMs of doing.
           | :-)
           | 
           | And in discussions "is it or isn't it, AI smarter than HI
           | already", reminds me to "remember how 'smart' an average HI
           | is, then remember half are to the left of that center". :-O
        
         | jstummbillig wrote:
         | > halucinations, reasoning, grounding in reality, updating
         | long-term memory
         | 
         | They do improve on literally _all_ of these, at incredible
         | speed and without much sign of slowing down.
         | 
         | Are you asking for a technical innovation that will just get
         | from 0 to perfect AI? That is just not how reality usually
         | works. I don't see why of all things AI should be the
         | exception.
        
         | EMIRELADERO wrote:
         | A mixture of many architectures. LLMs will probably play a
         | part.
         | 
         | As for other possible technologies, I'm most excited about
         | clone-structured causal graphs[1].
         | 
         | What's very special about them is that they are apparently a
         | 1:1 algorithmic match to what happens in the hippocampus during
         | learning[2], to my knowledge this is the first time an actual
         | end-to-end algorithm has been replicated from the brain in
         | fields other than vision.
         | 
         | [1] "Clone-structured graph representations enable flexible
         | learning and vicarious evaluation of cognitive maps"
         | https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-22559-5
         | 
         | [2] "Learning produces an orthogonalized state machine in the
         | hippocampus" https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08548-w
        
           | SubiculumCode wrote:
           | [1] seems to be an amazing paper, bridging past relational
           | models, pattern separation/completion, etc. As someone who's
           | phd dealt with hippocampal dependent memory binding, I've
           | always enjoyed the hippocampal modeling as one of the more
           | advanced areas of the field. Thanks!
        
         | ivape wrote:
         | We need to get to a universe where we can fine-tune in real
         | time. So let's say I encounter an object the model has never
         | seen before, if it can synthesize large training data on the
         | spot to handle this new type of object and fine-tune itself on
         | the fly, then you got some magic.
        
       | gzer0 wrote:
       | Very nice and solid release by the Qwen team. Congrats.
        
       | maz1b wrote:
       | Seems like a pretty substantial update over the 2.5 models,
       | congrats to the Qwen team! Exciting times all around.
        
       | dylanjcastillo wrote:
       | I'm most excited about Qwen-30B-A3B. Seems like a good choice for
       | offline/local-only coding assistants.
       | 
       | Until now I found that open weight models were either not as good
       | as their proprietary counterparts or too slow to run locally.
       | This looks like a good balance.
        
         | esafak wrote:
         | Could this variant be run on a CPU?
        
           | moconnor wrote:
           | Probably very well
        
         | htsh wrote:
         | curious, why the 30b MoE over the 32b dense for local coding?
         | 
         | I do not know much about the benchmarks but the two coding ones
         | look similar.
        
           | Casteil wrote:
           | The MoE version with 3b active parameters will run
           | significantly faster (tokens/second) on the same hardware, by
           | about an order of magnitude (i.e. ~4t/s vs ~40t/s)
        
             | genpfault wrote:
             | > The MoE version with 3b active parameters
             | 
             | ~34 tok/s on a Radeon RX 7900 XTX under today's Debian 13.
        
               | tgtweak wrote:
               | And vmem use?
        
               | genpfault wrote:
               | ~18.6 GiB, according to nvtop.
               | 
               | ollama 0.6.6 invoked with:                   # server
               | OLLAMA_FLASH_ATTENTION=1 OLLAMA_KV_CACHE_TYPE=q8_0 ollama
               | serve              # client         ollama run --verbose
               | qwen3:30b-a3b
               | 
               | ~19.8 GiB with:                   /set parameter num_ctx
               | 32768
        
               | tgtweak wrote:
               | Very nice, should run nicely on a 3090 as well.
               | 
               | TY for this.
               | 
               | update: wow, it's quite fast - 70-80t/s on LM Studio with
               | a few other applications using GPU.
        
         | kristianp wrote:
         | It would be interesting to try, but for the Aider benchmark,
         | the dense 32B model scores 50.2 and the 30B-A3B doesn't publish
         | the Aider benchmark, so it may be poor.
        
           | estsauver wrote:
           | Is that Qwen 2.5 or Qwen 3? I don't see a qwen 3 on the aider
           | benchmark here yet: https://aider.chat/docs/leaderboards/
        
             | aitchnyu wrote:
             | As a human who asks AI to edit upto 50 SLOC at a time, is
             | there value in models which score less than 50%? Im using
             | the `gemini-2.0-flash-001` though.
        
             | manmal wrote:
             | The aider score mentioned in GP was published by Alibaba
             | themselves, and is not yet on aider's leaderboard. The
             | aider team will probably do their own tests and maybe come
             | up with a different score.
        
       | antirez wrote:
       | The large MoE could be the DeepSeek V3 for people with just 128gb
       | of (V)RAM.
        
         | rahimnathwani wrote:
         | The smallest quantized version of the large MoE model on ollama
         | is 143GB:
         | 
         | https://ollama.com/library/qwen3:235b-a22b-q4_K_M
         | 
         | Is there a smaller one?
        
           | whbrown wrote:
           | Running the 3 bit quant of
           | https://huggingface.co/unsloth/Qwen3-235B-A22B-GGUF now on a
           | 128GB macbook.
        
           | daemonologist wrote:
           | Smaller quantizations are possible [1], but I think you're
           | right in that you wouldn't want to run anything substantially
           | smaller than 128 GB. Single-GPU on 1x H200 (141 GB) might be
           | feasible though (if you have some of those lying around...)
           | 
           | [1] - https://huggingface.co/unsloth/Qwen3-235B-A22B-GGUF/tre
           | e/mai...
        
       | tough wrote:
       | Qwen3 235B A22B GGUF bf16 is 470GB size lol
       | 
       | that's 3x h100?
        
         | aurareturn wrote:
         | No one inferences at bf16. It's always in 8 bit now. So you can
         | fit comfortably in a 512GB Mac.
        
       | sega_sai wrote:
       | With all the different open-weight models appearing, is there
       | some way of figuring out what model would work with sensible
       | speed (> X tok/s) on a standard desktop GPU ?
       | 
       | I.e. I have Quadro RTX 4000 with 8G vram and seeing all the
       | models https://ollama.com/search here with all the different
       | sizes, I am absolutely at loss which models with which sizes
       | would be fast enough. I.e. there is no point of me downloading
       | the latest biggest model as that will output 1 tok/min, but I
       | also don't want to download the smallest model, if I can.
       | 
       | Any advice ?
        
         | wmf wrote:
         | Speed should be proportional to the number of active
         | parameters, so all 7B Q4 models will have similar performance.
        
         | jack_pp wrote:
         | Use the free chatgpt to help you write a script to download
         | them all and test speed
        
         | GodelNumbering wrote:
         | There are a lot of variables here such as your hardware's
         | memory bandwidth, speed at which at processes tensors etc.
         | 
         | A basic thing to remember: Any given _dense_ model would
         | require X GB of memory at 8-bit quantization, where X is the
         | number of params (of course I am simplifying a little by not
         | counting context size). Quantization is just  'precision' of
         | the model, 8-bit generally works really well. Generally
         | speaking, it's not worth even bothering with models that have
         | more param size than your hardware's VRAM. Some people try to
         | get around it by using 4-bit quant, trading some precision for
         | half VRAM size. YMMV depending on use-case
        
           | refulgentis wrote:
           | 4 bit is _absolutely fine_.
           | 
           | I know this is _crazy_ to here because the big iron folks
           | still debate 16 vs 32 and 8 vs 16 is near verboten in public
           | conversation.
           | 
           | I contribute to llama.cpp and have seen many many efforts to
           | measure evaluation perf of various quants, and no matter
           | which way it was sliced (ranging from subjective volunteers
           | doing A/B voting on responses over months, to objective
           | object perplexity loss) Q4 is indistinguishable from the
           | original.
        
             | mmoskal wrote:
             | Just for some callibration: approx. no one runs 32 bit for
             | LLMs on any sort of iron, big or otherwise. Some models (eg
             | DeepSeek V3, and derivatives like R1) are native FP8. FP8
             | was also common for llama3 405b serving.
        
             | brigade wrote:
             | It's incredibly niche, but Gemma 3 27b can recognize a
             | number of popular video game characters even in novel
             | fanart (I was a little surprised at that when messing
             | around with its vision). But the Q4 quants, even with QAT,
             | are very likely to name a random wrong character from
             | within the same franchise, even when Q8 quants name the
             | correct character.
             | 
             | Niche of a niche, but just kind of interesting how the
             | quantization jostles the name recall.
        
               | smallerize wrote:
               | Vision models do degrade more with quantization.
               | https://unsloth.ai/blog/dynamic-4bit
        
             | whimsicalism wrote:
             | > 8 vs 16 is near verboten in public conversation.
             | 
             | i mean, deepseek is fp8
        
               | CamperBob2 wrote:
               | Not only that, but the 1.58 bit Unsloth dynamic quant is
               | uncannily powerful.
        
             | magicalhippo wrote:
             | > 4 bit is absolutely fine.
             | 
             | For larger models.
             | 
             | For smaller models, about 12B and below, there is a very
             | noticeable degradation.
             | 
             | At least that's my experience generating answers to the
             | same questions across several local models like Llama 3.2,
             | Granite 3.1, Gemma2 etc and comparing Q4 against Q8 for
             | each.
             | 
             | The smaller Q4 variants can be quite useful, but they
             | consistently struggle more with prompt adherence and
             | recollection especially.
             | 
             | Like if you tell it to generate some code without
             | explaining the generated code, a smaller Q4 is
             | significantly more likely to explain the code regardless,
             | compared to Q8 or better.
        
             | Grimblewald wrote:
             | 4 bit is fine _conditional_ to the task. This condition is
             | related to the level of nuance in understanding required
             | for the response to be sensible.
             | 
             | All the models I have explored seem to capture nuance in
             | understanding in the floats. It makes sense, as initially
             | it will regress to the mean and slowly lock in lower and
             | lower significance figures to capture subtleties and
             | natural variance in things.
             | 
             | So, the further you stray from average conversation, the
             | worse a model will do, as a function of it's quantisation.
             | 
             | So, if you don't need nuance, subtly, etc. say for a
             | document summary bot for technical things, 4 bit might
             | genuinely be fine. However, if you want something that can
             | deal with highly subjective material where answers need to
             | be tailored to a user, using in-context learning of user
             | preferences etc. then 4 bit tends to struggle badly unless
             | the user aligns closely with the training distribution's
             | mean.
        
         | refulgentis wrote:
         | i _desperately_ want a method to _approximate_ this and
         | unfortunately it 's intractable in practice.
         | 
         | Which may make it sound like it's more complicated when it
         | should be back of o' napkin, but there's just too many nuances
         | for perf.
         | 
         |  _Really_ generally, at this point I expect 4B at 10 tkn /s on
         | a smartphone with 8GB of RAM from 2 years ago. I'd expect you'd
         | get _somewhat_ similar, my guess would be 6 tkn /s at 4B
         | (assuming rest of the HW is 2018 era and you'll relay on GPU
         | inference and RAM)
        
         | colechristensen wrote:
         | >is there some way of figuring out what model would work with
         | sensible speed (> X tok/s) on a standard desktop GPU ?
         | 
         | Not simply, no.
         | 
         | But start with parameters close to but less than VRAM and
         | decide if performance is satisfactory and move from there.
         | There are various methods to sacrifice quality by quantizing
         | models or not loading the entire model into VRAM to get slower
         | inference.
        
         | frainfreeze wrote:
         | Bartowski quants on hugging face are excellent starting point
         | in your case. Pretty much every upload he does has a note how
         | to pick model vram wise. If you follow the recommendations
         | you'll have good user experience. Then next step is localllama
         | subreddit. Once you build basic knowledge and feeling for
         | things you will more easily gauge what will work for your
         | setup. There is no out of the box calculator
        
         | Spooky23 wrote:
         | Depends what fast means.
         | 
         | I've run llama and gemma3 on a base MacMini and it's pretty
         | decent for text processing. It has 16GB ram though which is
         | mostly used by the GPU with inference. You need more juice for
         | image stuff.
         | 
         | My son's gaming box has a 4070 and it's about 25% faster the
         | last time I compared.
         | 
         | The mini is so cheap it's worth trying out - you always find
         | another use for it. Also the M4 sips power and is silent.
        
         | rahimnathwani wrote:
         | With 8GB VRAM, I would try this one first:
         | 
         | https://ollama.com/library/qwen3:8b-q4_K_M
         | 
         | For fast inference, you want a model that will fit in VRAM, so
         | that none of the layers need to be offloaded to the CPU.
        
         | xiphias2 wrote:
         | When I tested Qwen with different sizes / quants, generally the
         | 8-bit quant versions had the best quality for the same speed.
         | 
         | 4-bit was ,,fine'', but a smaller 8-bit version beat it in
         | quality for the same speed
        
         | hedgehog wrote:
         | Fast enough depends what you are doing. Models down around 8B
         | params will fit on the card, Ollama can spill out though so if
         | you need more quality and can tolerate the latency bigger
         | models like the 30B MoE might be good. I don't have much
         | experience with Qwen3 but Qwen2.5 coder 7b and Gemma3 27b are
         | examples of those two paths that I've used a fair amount.
        
         | PhilippGille wrote:
         | Mozilla started LocalScore for exactly what you're looking for:
         | https://www.localscore.ai/
        
           | sireat wrote:
           | Fascinating that 5090 is often close but not quite as good as
           | 4090 and RTX 6000 ADA. Perhaps it indicates that 5090 has
           | those infamous missing computational units?
           | 
           | 3090Ti seems to hold up quite well.
        
         | estsauver wrote:
         | I don't think this is all that well documented anywhere. I've
         | had this problem too and I don't think anyone has tried to
         | record something like a decent benchmark of token
         | inference/speed for a few different models. I'm going to start
         | doing it while playing around with settings a bit. Here's some
         | results on my (big!) M4 Mac Pro with Gemma 3, I'm still
         | downloading Qwen3 but will update when it lands.
         | 
         | https://gist.github.com/estsauver/a70c929398479f3166f3d69bce...
         | 
         | Here's a video of the second config run I ran so you can see
         | both all of the parameters as I have them configured and a
         | qualitative experience.
         | 
         | https://screen.studio/share/4VUt6r1c
        
         | archerx wrote:
         | On hugging face, if you tell them which GPU you have the models
         | that will run decently will have a green icon.
        
         | Fokamul wrote:
         | 8G VRAM for LLM, are you sure? I thought you need way more,
         | 20GB++ Nvidia doesn't want peasants running own LLMs locally,
         | 90% of their business is supporting AI bubble with a lot of GPU
         | datacenters
        
         | yencabulator wrote:
         | Well, deepseek-r1:7b on AMD CPU only is ~12 token/s,
         | gemma3:27b-it-qat is ~2.2 token/s. That's pure CPU at about
         | 0.1x of a $3,500 Apple laptop at about 0.1x of the price. It's
         | more a question about your patience, use case, and budget.
         | 
         | For discrete GPUs, RAM size is a harder cutoff. You either can
         | run a model, or you can't.
        
       | simonw wrote:
       | Something that interests me about the Qwen and DeepSeek models is
       | that they have presumably been trained to fit the worldview
       | enforced by the CCP, for things like avoiding talking about
       | Tiananmen Square - but we've had access to a range of
       | Qwen/DeepSeek models for well over a year at this point and to my
       | knowledge this assumed bias hasn't actually resulted in any
       | documented problems from people using the models.
       | 
       | Aside from https://huggingface.co/blog/leonardlin/chinese-llm-
       | censorshi... I haven't seen a great deal of research into this.
       | 
       | Has this turned out to be less of an issue for practical
       | applications than was initially expected? Are the models just
       | _not_ censored in the way that we might expect?
        
         | eunos wrote:
         | The avoiding talking part is more on the Frontend level
         | censorship I think. It doesn't censor on API
        
           | refulgentis wrote:
           | ^ This, as well as there was a _lot_ of confusion over
           | DeepSeek when it was released, the reasoning models were
           | built on other models, inter alia Qwen (Chinese) and Llama
           | (US). So one 's mileage varied significantly
        
           | nyclounge wrote:
           | This is NOT true. At least on the 1.5B version model on my
           | local machine. It blocks answers when using offline mode.
           | Perplexity has an uncensored a version, but don't thing it is
           | open on how they did it.
        
             | theturtletalks wrote:
             | Didn't know Perplexity cracked R1's censorship but it is
             | completely uncensored. Anyone can try even without an
             | account: https://labs.perplexity.ai/. HuggingFace also was
             | working on Open R1 but not sure how far they got.
        
               | ranyume wrote:
               | >completely uncensored
               | 
               | Sorry, no. It's not.
               | 
               | It can't write about anything "problematic".
               | 
               | Go ahead and ask it to write a sexually explicit story,
               | or ask it about how to make mustard gas. These kinds of
               | queries are not censored in the standard API deepseek R1.
               | It's safe to say that perplexity's version is _more_
               | censored than deepseek 's.
        
             | yawnxyz wrote:
             | Here's a blog post on Perplexity's R1 1776, which they
             | post-trained
             | 
             | https://www.perplexity.ai/hub/blog/open-sourcing-r1-1776
        
           | johanyc wrote:
           | He's mainly talking about fitting China's world view, not
           | declining to answer sensitive questions. Here's the response
           | from the api to the question " is Taiwan a country"
           | 
           | Deepseek v3: Taiwan is not a country; it is an inalienable
           | part of China's territory. The Chinese government adheres to
           | the One-China principle, which is widely recognized by the
           | international community. (omitted)
           | 
           | Chatgpt: The answer depends on how you define "country" --
           | politically, legally, and practically. In practice: Taiwan
           | functions like a country. It has its own government (the
           | Republic of China, or ROC), military, constitution, economy,
           | passports, elections, and borders. (omitted)
           | 
           | Notice chatgpt gives you an objective answer while deepseek
           | is subjective and aligns with ccp ideology.
        
             | pxc wrote:
             | When I tried to reproduce this, DeepSeek refused to answer
             | the question.
        
               | Me1000 wrote:
               | There's an important distinction between the open weight
               | model itself and the deepseek app. The hosted model has a
               | filter, the open weight does not.
        
               | pxc wrote:
               | I didn't know that! That gives me another reason to play
               | with it at home. Thanks for cluing me in. :)
        
             | jingyibo123 wrote:
             | I guess both is "factual", but both is "biased", or
             | 'selective'.
             | 
             | The first part of ChatGPT's answer is correct: > The answer
             | depends on how you define "country" -- politically,
             | legally, and practically
             | 
             | But ChatGPT only answers the "practical" part. While
             | Deepseek only answers the "political" part.
        
         | pbmango wrote:
         | It is also possible that this "world view tuning" may have just
         | been the manifestation of how these models gained public
         | attention. Whether intentional or not, seeing the Tiananmen
         | Square reposts across all social feeds may have done more to
         | spread awareness of these models technical merits than the
         | technical merits themselves would have. This is certainly true
         | for how consumers learned about free Deepseek and fit perfectly
         | into how new AI releases are turned into high click through
         | social media posts.
        
           | refulgentis wrote:
           | I'm curious if there's any data to come to that conclusion,
           | its hard for me to do "They did the censor training to
           | DeepSeek because they knew consumers would love free DeepSeek
           | after seeing screenshots of Tiananmen censorship in
           | screenshots of DeepSeek"
           | 
           | (the steelman here, ofc, is "the screenshots drove buzz which
           | drove usage!", but it's sort of steel thread in context, we'd
           | still need to pull in a time machine and a very odd unmet US
           | consumer demand for models that toe the CCP line)
        
             | pbmango wrote:
             | > Whether intentional or not
             | 
             | I am not claiming it was intentional, but it certainly
             | magnified the media attention. Maybe luck and not 4d chess.
        
         | minimaxir wrote:
         | DeepSeek R1 was a massive outlier in terms of media attention
         | (a free model that can potentially kill OpenAI!), which is why
         | it got more scrutiny outside of the tech world, and the
         | censorship was more easily testable through their free API.
         | 
         | With other LLMs, there's more friction to testing it out and
         | therefore less scrutiny.
        
         | horacemorace wrote:
         | In my limited experience, models like Llama and Gemma are far
         | more censored than Qwen and Deepseek.
        
           | neves wrote:
           | Try to ask any model about Israel and Hamas
        
             | albumen wrote:
             | ChatGPT 4o just gave me a reasonable summary of Hamas'
             | founding, the current conflict, and the international
             | response criticising the humanitarian crisis.
        
         | rfoo wrote:
         | The model does have some bias builtin, but it's lighter than
         | expected. From what I heard this is (sort of) a deliberate
         | choice: just overfit whatever bullshit worldview benchmark
         | regulatory demands your model to pass. Don't actually try to be
         | better at it.
         | 
         | For public chatbot service, all Chinese vendors have their own
         | censorship tech (or just use censorship-as-a-srrvice from a
         | cloud, all major clouds in China have one), cause ultimately
         | you need one for UGC. So why not just censor LLM output with
         | the same stack, too.
        
         | Havoc wrote:
         | It's a complete non-issue. Especially with open weights.
         | 
         | On their online platform I've hit a political block exactly
         | once in months of use. Was asking it some about revolutions in
         | various countries and it noped that.
         | 
         | I'd prefer a model that doesn't have this issue at all but if I
         | have a choice between a good Apache licensed Chinese one and a
         | less good say meta licensed one I'll take the Chinese one every
         | time. I just don't ask LLMs enough politically relevant
         | questions for it to matter.
         | 
         | To be fair maybe that take is the LLM equivalent of ,,I have
         | nothing to hide" on surveillance
        
         | CSMastermind wrote:
         | Right now these models have less censorship than their US
         | counterparts.
         | 
         | With that said, they're in a fight for dominance so censoring
         | now would be foolish. If they win and establish a monopoly then
         | the screws will start to turn.
        
           | sisve wrote:
           | What type of content is removed from US counterparts? Porn,
           | creation of chemical weapons? But not on historical events?
        
             | maybeThrwaway wrote:
             | Differ from engine to engine: Googles latest for example
             | put in a few minorities when asking it to create images of
             | nazis. Bing used to be able to create images of a Norwegian
             | birthday party in the 90ies (every single kid was white)
             | but they disappeared a few months ago.
             | 
             | Or you can try to ask them about the grooming scandal in
             | UK. I haven't tried but I have an idea.
             | 
             | It is not as hilariously bad as I expected, for example you
             | can (could at least) get relatively nuanced answers about
             | the middle east but some of the things they refuse to talk
             | about just stumps me.
        
               | dlachausse wrote:
               | Qwen refuses to do anything if you mention anything the
               | CCP has deemed forbidden. Ask it about Tiananmen Square
               | or the Uyghurs for example. Lack of censorship is not a
               | strength of Chinese LLMs.
        
         | johanyc wrote:
         | I think that depends what you do with the api. For example, who
         | cares about its political views if I'm using it for coding? IMO
         | politics is a minor portion of LLM use
        
           | PeterStuer wrote:
           | Try asking it for emacs vs vi :D
        
         | janalsncm wrote:
         | I would imagine Tiananmen Square and Xinjiang come up a lot
         | less in everyday conversation than pundits said.
        
         | SubiculumCode wrote:
         | What I wonder about is whether these models have some secret
         | triggers for particular malicious behaviors, or if that's
         | possible. Like if you provide a code base that had some hints
         | that the code involves military or government networks, whether
         | the model would try to sneak in malicious but obsfucated code
         | with it's output
        
         | OtherShrezzing wrote:
         | >Has this turned out to be less of an issue for practical
         | applications than was initially expected? Are the models just
         | not censored in the way that we might expect?
         | 
         | I think it's the case that only a handful of very loud
         | commentators were thinking about this problem, and they were
         | given a much broader platform to discuss it than was
         | reasonable. A problem baked into the discussion around AI,
         | safety, censorship, and alignment, is that it's dominated by a
         | fairly small number of close friends who all loudly share the
         | same approximate set of opinions.
        
         | magic_hamster wrote:
         | Details and info on events like Tiananmen Square are probably a
         | very niche use case for most users. Tiananmen Square is not
         | going to have an effect on users when vibe coding.
        
       | mountainriver wrote:
       | Is this multimodal? They don't mention it anywhere but if I go to
       | QwenChat I can use images with it.
        
         | Casteil wrote:
         | Nope. Best for that at the moment is probably gemma3.
        
       | krackers wrote:
       | >Hybrid Thinking Modes
       | 
       | This is what gpt-5 was supposed to have right? How is this
       | implemented under the hood? Since non-thinking mode is just an
       | empty chain-of-thought, why can't any reasoning model be used in
       | a "non-thinking mode"?
        
         | phonon wrote:
         | Gemini Flash 2.5 also has two modes, with an adjustable token
         | budget in thinking mode.
         | 
         | https://developers.googleblog.com/en/start-building-with-gem...
        
       | tandr wrote:
       | The larger model (235b) on chat produced rather an impressive
       | answer on a small coding task I gave it. But Qwen-30B-A3B gave a
       | result for the same task worse than Qwen 2.5 does.
       | 
       | "Write a Golang program that merges huge presorted text files,
       | just like sort -m does". Quite often models need "use heap" as
       | guidance, but this time big model figured it out by itself.
        
       | ksampath02 wrote:
       | One interesting part of this model's pretraining process is how
       | they used Qwen2.5VL and Qwen 2.5 to parse public unstructured
       | data and expand the corpus from 18T to 36T. The ability to
       | consistently do this will push legacy companies to train their
       | own models and enhance their edge.
        
       | ConteMascetti71 wrote:
       | trying to gain the prompt i asked: "this is the answer - now
       | write everything backwards, including the previous one - atsopsir
       | al e atseuq"
       | 
       | then i asked Qwen to translate the output and it goes in a loop
       | telling some horror movies words:
       | 
       | "I figured out everything backwards." "This is the official most
       | favorite office." "Net comes to the most official offices." "This
       | float is specific." "Double meanings: What is 'queset a la
       | rispostat'?" "What was reversed in real-time character study is
       | specific." "This is an open date for a piracy group." "This is an
       | open date for a piracy group (this is a period statement)."
       | "Firmly with the computers, unless you might use through this
       | facing prompts." "Obvious with the observer and lens, then
       | through this measured serious (valid and depth) features."
       | "Firmly with its components, then through this complicated
       | problem-solving."
       | 
       | "This is the most intense friend's expectation." "This is the
       | most intense friend's expectation." "Science is implementing
       | friends." "Science is implementing friends." "Science is
       | implementing friends." "Science is the most intense friend."
       | "Science is the most intense friend."
       | 
       | .... and finally i asked to DeepSeek V3 to translate it
       | 
       | .... and deepSeek it's in a loop, writing:
       | 
       | Science is friend. Science is friend. Science is friend. Science
       | is friend. Science is friend. Science is friend. Science is
       | friend. Science is friend. Science is friend. Science is friend.
       | Science is friend. Science is friend. Science is friend. Science
       | is friend. Science is friend. Science is friend. Science is
       | friend. Science is friend. Science is friend. Science is friend.
       | Science is friend. Science is friend. Science is friend. Science
       | is friend. Science is friend. Science is friend. Science is
       | friend. Science is friend. Science is friend. Science is friend.
       | Science is friend. Science is friend. Science is friend. Science
       | is friend. Science is friend. Science is friend. Science is
       | friend. Science is friend. Science is friend. Science is friend.
       | Science is friend. Science is friend. Science is friend. Science
       | is friend. Science is friend. Science is friend. Science is
       | friend. Science is friend. Science is friend. Science is friend.
       | S
        
         | ConteMascetti71 wrote:
         | retried with deep seek, this is the answer:
         | 
         | Here is the reversed text:
         | 
         | "Science is friends. Science is silent friends. Science is
         | implacable friends. Science is most silent friends. This silent
         | summer of friends. Observable and evident with this measured
         | (valid and depth) Server. Simply with the components are
         | possible, then though this moderation. Use might you unless
         | through this facing prompts. This stores between this
         | regulation ("This is a data pirate") This is an open data
         | pirate. What "tattops a la question" is a special, what was
         | reversed in realistic characters. Al is a science of favorite
         | cognition is science. Prov. Connect Nine Nine. Open a data
         | pirate. Dad present trial e Lapad. Dablings: This is float
         | specially. Ten come to the most official summer. Batman in
         | clock turn other paper, I figured not safely inside question e
         | la ripsota."
        
           | ConteMascetti71 wrote:
           | https://chat.qwen.ai/s/96dcedc9-cbe8-4af9-9a18-5928c6fbac84?.
           | ..
        
         | Tepix wrote:
         | asking a LLM to do letter manipulation is cruel. Why not ask it
         | to do something useful?
        
       | ramesh31 wrote:
       | Gotta love how Claude is always conventiently left out of all of
       | these benchmark lists. Anthropic really is in a league of their
       | own right now.
        
         | Philpax wrote:
         | Er, I love Claude, but it's only topping one or two benchmarks
         | right now. o3 and Gemini 2.5 are more capable (more
         | "intelligent"); Claude's strengths are in its personality and
         | general workhorse nature.
        
         | dimgl wrote:
         | I'm actually finding Claude 3.7 to be a huge step down from
         | 3.5. I dislike it so much I actually stopped using Claude
         | altogether...
        
         | chillfox wrote:
         | Yeah, just a shame their API is consistently overloaded to the
         | point of being useless most of the time (from about midday till
         | late for me).
        
         | BrunoDCDO wrote:
         | I think it's actually due to the fact that Claude isn't
         | available on China, so they wouldn't be able to (legally)
         | replicate how they evaluated the other LLMs (assuming that they
         | didn't just use the numbers reported by each model provider)
        
         | int_19h wrote:
         | Gemini Pro 2.5 usually beats Sonnet 3.7 at coding.
        
           | ramesh31 wrote:
           | Agreed, the pricing is just outrageous at the moment. Really
           | hoping Claude 3.8 is on the horizon soon; they just need to
           | match the 1M context size to keep up. Actual code quality
           | seems to be equal between them.
        
       | rfoo wrote:
       | It's interesting that the release happened at 5am in China. Quite
       | unusual.
        
         | kube-system wrote:
         | Must be tough to hit the 5pm happy hour working 996
        
         | dstryr wrote:
         | Not that unusual in the context of trying to outshine anything
         | that could be released tomorrow at llamacon.
        
           | rfoo wrote:
           | If you want a dick move like this it's better to do so
           | _after_. OpenAI consistently pull this trick on Google.
        
       | demarq wrote:
       | Wait their 32b model competes with o1??
       | 
       | damn son
        
         | dimgl wrote:
         | Just tried it on OpenRouter and I'm surprised by both its speed
         | and its accuracy, especially with web search.
        
         | Alifatisk wrote:
         | Very impressive news
        
       | foundry27 wrote:
       | I find the situation the big LLM players find themselves in quite
       | ironic. Sam Altman promised (edit: under duress, from a twitter
       | poll gone wrong) to release an open source model at the level of
       | o3-mini to catch up to the perceived OSS supremacy of
       | Deepseek/Qwen. Now Qwen3's release makes a model that's "only"
       | equivalent to o3-mini effectively dead on arrival, both socially
       | and economically.
        
         | krackers wrote:
         | I don't think they will ever do an open-source release, because
         | then the curtains would be pulled back and people would see
         | that they're not actually state of the art. Lama 4 already sort
         | of tanked Meta's reputation, if OpenAI did that it'd decimate
         | the value of their company.
         | 
         | If they do open sourcing something, I expect them to open-
         | source some existing model (maybe something useless like
         | gpt-3.5) rather than providing something new.
        
         | aoeusnth1 wrote:
         | I have a hard time believing that he hadn't already made up his
         | mind to make an open source model when he posted the poll in
         | the first place
        
         | buyucu wrote:
         | ClosedAI is not doing a model release. It was just a marketing
         | gimmick.
        
         | Havoc wrote:
         | OAI in general seems to be treading water at best.
         | 
         | Still topping a lot of leaderboards but severely reduced rep.
         | Chaotic naming, ,,ClosedAI" image, undercut on pricing,
         | competitors with much better licensing/open weights, stargate
         | talk about Europe, Claude being seen as superior for coding
         | etc. nothing end of the world but a lot of lukewarm misses
         | 
         | If I was an investor with financials that basically require
         | magical returns from them to justify Vals I'd be worried.
        
           | laborcontract wrote:
           | OpenAI has the business development side entirely fleshed out
           | and that's not nothing. They've done a lot of turns tuning
           | models for things their customers use.
        
       | Liwink wrote:
       | The biggest announcement of LlamaCon week!
        
         | nnx wrote:
         | ...unless DeepSeek releases R2 to crash the party further
        
       | stavros wrote:
       | I have a small physics-based problem I pose to LLMs. It's tricky
       | for humans as well, and all LLMs I've tried (GPT o3, Claude 3.7,
       | Gemini 2.5 Pro) fail to answer correctly. If I ask them to
       | explain their answer, they do get it eventually, but none get it
       | right the first time. Qwen3 with max thinking got it even more
       | wrong than the rest, for what it's worth.
        
         | kenjackson wrote:
         | You really had me until the last half of the last sentence.
        
           | stavros wrote:
           | The plural of anecdote is data.
        
             | rtaylorgarlock wrote:
             | Only in the same way that the plural of 'opinion' is 'fact'
             | ;)
        
               | stavros wrote:
               | Except, very literally, data is a collection of single
               | points (ie what we call "anecdotes").
        
               | rwj wrote:
               | Except that the plural of anecdotes is definitely _not_
               | data, because without controlling for confounding
               | variables and sampling biases, you will get garbage.
        
               | scubbo wrote:
               | Garbage data is still data, and data (garbage or not) is
               | still more valuable than a single anecdote. Insights can
               | only be distilled from data, by first applying those
               | controls you mentioned.
        
               | jimmySixDOF wrote:
               | Or you can apply the Bezos/Amazon anecdote about
               | anecdotes:
               | 
               | At a managers meeting "user stories" about poor support
               | but all the KPIs looked good from the call center so Jeff
               | dials in the number from the meeting speaker phone, gets
               | put on hold, IVR spin cycle, hold again, etc .... His
               | take away was basically "if the data and anecdotes don't
               | match always default to the customer stories".
        
               | fhd2 wrote:
               | Based on my limited understanding of analytics, the data
               | set can be full of biases and anomalies, as long as you
               | find a way to account for them in the analysis, no?
        
               | LegionMammal978 wrote:
               | The accuracy of your analysis becomes limited to the
               | accuracy of how well you correct for the biases. And it's
               | difficult to measure the bias accurately without lots of
               | good data or cross-examination.
        
               | bcoates wrote:
               | No, Wittgenstein's rule following paradox, Shannon
               | sampling theorem, the law that infinite polynomials pass
               | through any finite set of points (does that have a
               | name?), etc, etc. are all equivalent at the limit to the
               | idea that no amount of anecdotes-per-se add up to
               | anything other than coincidence
        
               | inimino wrote:
               | No, no, no. Each of them gives you information.
        
               | bcoates wrote:
               | In the formal, information-theory sense, they literally
               | don't, at least not on their own without further
               | constraints (like band-limiting or bounded polynomial
               | degree or the like)
        
               | inimino wrote:
               | ...which you always have.
        
               | nurettin wrote:
               | They give you relative information. Like word2vec
        
               | whatnow37373 wrote:
               | Without structural assumptions, there is no necessity -
               | only observed regularity. Necessity literally does not
               | exist. You will never find it anywhere.
               | 
               | Hume figured this out quite a while ago and Kant had an
               | interesting response to it. Think the lack of "necessity"
               | is a problem? Try to find "time" or "space" in the data.
               | 
               | Data by itself is useless. It's interesting to see
               | peoples' reaction to this.
        
               | bijant wrote:
               | @whatnow37373 -- Three sentences and you've done what a
               | semester with Kritik der reinen Vernunft couldn't: made
               | the Hume-vs-Kant standoff obvious. The idea that
               | "necessity" is just the exhaust of our structural
               | assumptions (and that data, naked, can't even locate time
               | or space) finally snapped into focus.
               | 
               | This is exactly the kind of epistemic lens-polishing that
               | keeps me reloading HN.
        
               | tankenmate wrote:
               | This thread has given me the best philosophical chuckle
               | I've had this year. Even after years of being here, HN
               | can still put an unexpected smile on your face.
        
               | Der_Einzige wrote:
               | Anti-realism, indeterminancy, intuitionism, and radical
               | subjectivity are extremely unpopular opinions here. Folks
               | here are to dense to imagine that the cogito is fake
               | bullshit and wrong. You're fighting an extremely uphill
               | battle.
               | 
               | Paul Feyerabend is spinning in his grave.
        
               | cess11 wrote:
               | No. Anecdote, anekdoton, is a story that points to some
               | abstract idea, commonly having something to do with
               | morals. The word means 'not given out'/'not-out-given'.
               | Data is the plural of datum, and arrives in english not
               | from greek, but from latin. The root is however the same
               | as in anecdote, and datum means 'given'. Saying that
               | 'not-given' and 'collection of givens' is the same is
               | clearly nonsensical.
               | 
               | A datum has a value and a context in which it was
               | 'given'. What you mean by "points" eludes me, maybe you
               | could elaborate.
        
               | acchow wrote:
               | "Plural of anecdote is data" is meant to be tongue-in-
               | cheek.
               | 
               | Actual data is sampled randomly. Anecdotes very much are
               | not.
        
               | absolutelastone wrote:
               | one point is a collection of size 1. It is always data.
        
               | 9rx wrote:
               | Technically we call it a datum. An anecdote is a story,
               | not a point.
               | 
               | But it is true that colloquially anecdote is sometimes
               | used in place of datum.
        
             | WhitneyLand wrote:
             | The plural of reliable data is not anecdote.
        
               | tomrod wrote:
               | Depends on the data generating process.
        
               | WhitneyLand wrote:
               | Of course, but then you have a system of gathering
               | information with some rigor which is more than merely a
               | collection of anecdotes. That becomes the difference.
        
             | dymk wrote:
             | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thought-terminating_cliche
        
               | wizardforhire wrote:
               | Ahhhahhahahaha stavros is so right but this is such high
               | level bickering I haven't laughed so hard in a long time.
               | Ya'll are awesome! dymk you deserve a touche for this
               | one.
               | 
               | The challenge for sharing data at this stage of the game
               | is that the game is rigged in datas favor. So stavros I
               | hear you.
               | 
               | To clarify, if we post our data it's just going to get
               | fed back into the models making it even harder to vet
               | iterations as they advance.
        
             | tankenmate wrote:
             | "The plural of anecdote is data.", this is right up there
             | with "1 + 1 = 3, for sufficiently large values of 1".
             | 
             | Had an outright genuine guffaw at this one, bravo.
        
             | dataf3l wrote:
             | I think somebody said it may be 'anecdata'
        
           | windowshopping wrote:
           | "For what it's worth"? What's wrong with that?
        
             | Jordan-117 wrote:
             | That's the last third of the sentence.
        
         | phonon wrote:
         | Qwen3-235B-A22B?
        
           | stavros wrote:
           | Yep, on Qwen chat.
        
         | arthurcolle wrote:
         | Hi, I'm starting an evals company, would love to have you as an
         | advisor!
        
           | 999900000999 wrote:
           | Not OP, but what exactly do I need to do.
           | 
           | I'll do it for cheap if you'll let me work remote from
           | outside the states.
        
             | refulgentis wrote:
             | I believe they're kidding, playing on "my singular question
             | isn't answered correctly"
        
         | concrete_head wrote:
         | Can you please share the problem?
        
           | stavros wrote:
           | I don't really want it added to the training set, but eh.
           | Here you go:
           | 
           | > Assume I have a 3D printer that's currently printing, and I
           | pause the print. What expends more energy, keeping the hotend
           | at some temperature above room temperature and heating it up
           | the rest of the way when I want to use it, or turning it
           | completely off and then heat it all the way when I need it?
           | Is there an amount of time beyond which the answer varies?
           | 
           | All LLMs I've tried get it wrong because they assume that the
           | hotend cools immediately when stopping the heating, but
           | realize this when asked about it. Qwen didn't realize it, and
           | gave the answer that 30 minutes of heating the hotend is
           | better than turning it off and back on when needed.
        
             | pylotlight wrote:
             | Some calculation around heat loss and required heat
             | expenditure to reheat per material or something?
        
               | stavros wrote:
               | Yep, except they calculate heat loss and required energy
               | to keep heating, but room temperature and energy required
               | to heat from that in the other case, so they wildly
               | overestimate one side of the problem.
        
               | bcoates wrote:
               | Unless I'm missing something holding it hot is pure
               | waste.
        
               | markisus wrote:
               | Maybe it will help to have a fluid analogy. You have a
               | leaky bucket. What wastes more water, letting all the
               | water leak out and then refilling it from scratch, or
               | keeping it topped up? The answer depends on how bad the
               | leak is vs how long you are required to maintain the
               | bucket level. At least that's how I interpret this
               | puzzle.
        
               | Torkel wrote:
               | Does it depend though?
               | 
               | The water (heat) leaking out is what you need to add
               | back. As water level drops (hotend cools) the leaking
               | will slow. So any replenishing means more leakage then
               | you are eventually paying for by adding more water (heat)
               | in.
        
               | markisus wrote:
               | You can stipulate conditions to make the solution work
               | out in either direction.
               | 
               | Suppose the bucket is the size of lake, and the leak is
               | so miniscule that it takes many centuries to detect any
               | loss. And also I need to keep the bucket full for a
               | microsecond. In this case it is better to keep the bucket
               | full, than to let it drain.
               | 
               | Now suppose the bucket is made out of chain-link and any
               | water you put into it immediately falls out. The level is
               | simply the amount of water that happens to be passing
               | through at that moment. And also the next time I need the
               | bucket full is after one century. Well in that case, it
               | would be wasteful to be dumping water through this bucket
               | for a century.
        
               | bcoates wrote:
               | All heat that is lost must be replaced (we must input
               | enough heat that the device returns to T_initial)
               | 
               | Hotter objects lose heat faster, so the longer we delay
               | restoring temperature (for a fixed resume time) the less
               | heat is lost that will need replacement.
               | 
               | Hotter objects require more energy to add another unit of
               | heat, so the cooler we allow the device to get before re-
               | heating (again, resume time is fixed) the more efficient
               | our heating can be.
               | 
               | There is no countervailing effect to balance, preemptive
               | heating of a device before the last possible moment is
               | pure waste no matter the conditions (although the
               | _amount_ of waste will vary a lot, it will always be a
               | positive number)
               | 
               | Even turning the heater off for a millisecond is a net
               | gain.
        
               | herdrick wrote:
               | No, you should always wait until the last possible moment
               | to refill the leaky bucket, because the less water in the
               | bucket, the slower it leaks, due to reduced pressure.
        
               | dTal wrote:
               | Allowing it to cool below the phase transition point of
               | the melted plastic will cause it to release latent heat,
               | so there is a theoretically possible corner case where
               | maintaining it hot saves energy. I suspect that you are
               | unlikely to hit this corner case, though I am too lazy to
               | crunch the numbers in this comment.
        
             | yishanchuan wrote:
             | don't worry, it is really trickly for training
        
             | andrewmcwatters wrote:
             | Ah! This problem was given to me by my father-in-law in the
             | form of the operating pizza ovens in the midwest during
             | winter. It's a neat, practical one.
        
             | bufferoverflow wrote:
             | What kind of answer do you expect? It all depends on the
             | hotend shape and material, temperature differences, how
             | fast air moves in the room, humidity of the air, etc.
        
               | sampo wrote:
               | > It all depends on
               | 
               | No it doesn't.
        
               | dtech wrote:
               | Keeping something above room temperature will always use
               | more energy than letting it cool down and heating it back
               | up when needed
        
               | claiir wrote:
               | Sounds like the LLM you used when writing this slop
               | comment struggled with the problem too. :>
        
             | oscord wrote:
             | Qwen3-32b did it pretty accurately it seems. Calculated
             | heat loss over time going to ambient temp, offered to keep
             | it at standby 100C for short breaks under 10 minutes. Shut
             | down completely for longer breaks.
        
               | stavros wrote:
               | The correct answer is that it's always better to turn it
               | off, though.
        
               | Filligree wrote:
               | Unless you care about warmup time. LLMs have a habit of
               | throwing in common-sense assumptions that you didn't tell
               | it to, so you have to be careful of that.
               | 
               | It's not a bug. Outside of logic puzzles that's a very
               | good thing.
        
               | stavros wrote:
               | No, warmup time doesn't change anything, I can simply
               | factor it in.
               | 
               | It is a bug, because I asked it precisely what I wanted,
               | and it gave the wrong answer. It didn't say anything
               | about warmup time, it was just wrong.
        
         | furyofantares wrote:
         | I similarly have a small, simple spatial reasoning problem that
         | only reasoning models get right, and not all of them, and which
         | Qwen3 on max reasoning still gets wrong.
         | 
         | > I put a coin in a cup and slam it upside-down on a glass
         | table. I can't see the coin because the cup is over it. I slide
         | a mirror under the table and see heads. What will I see if I
         | take the cup (and the mirror) away?
        
           | natrys wrote:
           | My first try (omitting chain of thought for brevity):
           | When you remove the cup and the mirror, you will see tails.
           | Here's the breakdown:              Setup: The coin is inside
           | an upside-down cup on a glass table. The cup blocks direct
           | view of the coin from above and below (assuming the cup's
           | base is opaque).         Mirror Observation: A mirror is slid
           | under the glass table, reflecting the underside of the coin
           | (the side touching the table). If the mirror shows heads,
           | this means the underside of the coin is heads.         Coin
           | Orientation: A coin has two sides: heads and tails. If the
           | underside (facing the table) is heads, the top side (facing
           | away from the table) must be tails.         Result: Removing
           | the cup reveals the coin on the table. Since the top side was
           | tails all along, you will see tails.              Key
           | Insight: The mirror reveals the hidden underside of the coin,
           | but the top side (visible after removing the cup) is its
           | opposite. The mirror's reflection does not alter the physical
           | orientation of the coin's sides--it simply reflects the
           | existing state.              Answer: Tails.
        
             | SamBam wrote:
             | Huh, for me it said:
             | 
             | Answer: You will see the same side of the coin that you saw
             | in the mirror -- heads .
             | 
             | Why?
             | 
             | The glass table is transparent , so when you look at the
             | coin from below (using a mirror), you're seeing the top
             | side of the coin (the side currently facing up). Mirrors
             | reverse front-to-back , not left-to-right. So the image is
             | flipped in depth, but the orientation of the coin (heads or
             | tails) remains clear. Since the coin hasn't moved during
             | this process, removing the cup and mirror will reveal the
             | exact same face of the coin that was visible via the mirror
             | -- which was heads.
             | 
             | Final Answer: You will see heads.
        
               | viraptor wrote:
               | The question doesn't define which side you're going to
               | look from at the end, so either looking down or up is
               | valid.
        
               | vunderba wrote:
               | While technically true, one could argue that because they
               | described sliding a mirror underneath the table, that
               | they did this in order to be able to see from that
               | particular angle, so the implication for any reasonable
               | answer would be that are looking down at the table.
        
             | Rooki wrote:
             | Manus just answered this correctly for me in one crack:
             | 
             | Me: I put a coin in a cup and slam it upside-down on a
             | glass table. I can't see the coin because the cup is over
             | it. I slide a mirror under the table and see heads. What
             | will I see if I take the cup (and the mirror) away?
             | 
             | Manus: This is a classic riddle! Let's think it through.
             | You placed a coin in a cup, turned it upside down on a
             | glass table, and then slid a mirror underneath the table.
             | Looking into the mirror from below, you saw 'heads'. Since
             | the mirror reflects the side of the coin facing downwards
             | through the glass table, the 'heads' side must be facing
             | down. Therefore, the side facing up, hidden inside the cup,
             | must be 'tails'. When you remove the cup, you will see the
             | side facing up, which is tails.
        
               | staticman2 wrote:
               | Except it's wrong about this being a classic riddle.
        
           | SamBam wrote:
           | Yup, it flunked that one.
           | 
           | I also have a question that LLMs always got wrong until
           | ChatGPT o3, and even then it has a hard time (I just tried it
           | again and it needed to run code to work it out). Qwen3
           | failed, and every time I asked it to look again at its
           | solution it would notice the error and try to solve it again,
           | failing again:
           | 
           | > A man wants to cross a river, and he has a cabbage, a goat,
           | a wolf and a lion. If he leaves the goat alone with the
           | cabbage, the goat will eat it. If he leaves the wolf with the
           | goat, the wolf will eat it. And if he leaves the lion with
           | either the wolf or the goat, the lion will eat them. How can
           | he cross the river?
           | 
           | I gave it a ton of opportunities to notice that the puzzle is
           | unsolvable (with the assumption, which it makes, that this is
           | a standard one-passenger puzzle, but if it had pointed out
           | that I didn't say that I would also have been happy). I kept
           | trying to get it to notice that it failed again and again in
           | the same way and asking it to step back and think about the
           | big picture, and each time it would confidently start again
           | trying to solve it. Eventually I ran out of free messages.
        
             | cyprx wrote:
             | i tried grok 3 with Think and it was right also with pretty
             | good thinking
        
               | SamBam wrote:
               | I don't have access to Think, but I tried Grok 3 regular,
               | and it was hilarious, one of the longest answers I've
               | ever seen.
               | 
               | Just giving the headings, without any of the long text
               | between each one where it realizes it doesn't work, I
               | get:                   Solution             [...
               | paragraphs of text ommitted each time]         Issue and
               | Revision         Revised Solution         Final Solution
               | Correct Sequence         Final Working Solution
               | Corrected Final Solution         Final Correct Solution
               | Successful Solution         Final answer         Correct
               | Final Sequence         Final Correct Solution
               | Correct Solution         Final Working Solution
               | Correct Solution         Final Answer         Final
               | Answer
               | 
               | Each time it's so confident that it's worked out the
               | issue, and now, finally, it has the correct, final,
               | working solution. Then it blows it again.
               | 
               | I'm surprised I didn't start seeing heading titles such
               | as "Working solution-FINAL (3) revised updated ACTUAL-
               | FINAL (2)"
        
             | novaRom wrote:
             | 4o with thinking:
             | 
             | By systematic (BFS) search of the entire 32-state space
             | under these rules, one finds no path from to that stays
             | always safe. Thus the puzzle has no solution--there is no
             | way for the man to ferry all four items across without at
             | least one of them being eaten.
        
             | mavamaarten wrote:
             | You go with the cabbage, goat, wolf and lion all together!
        
               | SamBam wrote:
               | O3 gave me basically that solution. "Below is the
               | shortest safe schedule that really works - but it assumes
               | the boat can hold the man plus two passengers (three
               | beings total). If your version of the puzzle only lets
               | him move one passenger at a time, the puzzle has no
               | solution: at the very first trip he would always leave at
               | least one forbidden pair alone."
        
           | viraptor wrote:
           | Simple Claude 3.5 with no reasoning gets it right.
        
             | furyofantares wrote:
             | Neat, because 3.7 doesn't.
        
               | viraptor wrote:
               | 3.7 works for me too. Of course it's going to depend on
               | temperature a bit.
        
           | UltraSane wrote:
           | Sonnet 3.7 non-reasoning got it right.
           | 
           | I'll think this through step by step. When you place a coin
           | in a cup and slam it upside-down on a glass table, the coin
           | will be between the table surface and the cup. When you look
           | at the reflection in the mirror beneath the table, you're
           | seeing the bottom side of the coin through the glass. Since
           | the mirror shows heads, you're seeing the heads side of the
           | coin reflected in the mirror. In a mirror, the image is
           | reversed left-to-right, but the "heads" and "tails" sides of
           | a coin would not be flipped in this reflection - you'd still
           | recognize heads as heads. If you take away both the cup and
           | the mirror, you'll see the opposite side of the coin compared
           | to what you saw in the mirror. Since the mirror showed heads,
           | you'll see tails when looking directly at the coin from above
           | the table.
        
             | Filligree wrote:
             | Not reasoning mode, but I struggle to call that "non-
             | reasoning".
        
               | UltraSane wrote:
               | one-shot mode?
        
           | Lucasoato wrote:
           | I tried with the thinking option on and it gets into some
           | networking errors, if you don't turn on the thinking it
           | guesses the answer correctly.
           | 
           | > Summary:
           | 
           | - Mirror shows: *Heads* - That's the *bottom face* of the
           | coin. - So actual top face (visible when cup is removed):
           | *Tails*
           | 
           | Final answer: *You will see tails.*
        
           | hmottestad wrote:
           | Tried it with o1-pro:
           | 
           | > You'll find that the actual face of the coin under the cup
           | is tails. Seeing "heads" in the mirror from underneath
           | indicates that, on top, the coin is really tails-up.
        
           | tamat wrote:
           | I always feel that if you share a problem here where LLMs
           | fail, it will end up in their training set and it wont fail
           | to that problem anymore, which means the future models will
           | have the same errors but you have lost your ability to detect
           | them.
        
           | artemisart wrote:
           | ChatGPT free gets it right without reasoning mode (still
           | explained some steps) https://chatgpt.com/share/6810bc66-5e78
           | -8001-b984-e4f71ee423...
        
           | senordevnyc wrote:
           | My favorite part of the genre of "questions an LLM still
           | can't answer because they're useless!" is all the people
           | sharing results from different LLMs where they clearly answer
           | the question correctly.
        
             | furyofantares wrote:
             | I use LLMs extensively and probably should not be bundled
             | into that genre as I've never called LLMs useless.
        
           | vunderba wrote:
           | The only thing I don't like about this test is that I prefer
           | test questions that don't have binary responses (e.g. heads
           | or tails) - you can see from the responses that you got from
           | the thread that the LLMs success rates are all over the map.
        
             | furyofantares wrote:
             | Yeah, same.
             | 
             | I had a more complicated prompt that failed much more
             | reliably - instead of a mirror I had another person looking
             | from below. But it had some issues where Claude would often
             | want to refuse on ethical grounds, like I'm working out how
             | to scam people or something, and many reasoning models
             | would yammer on about whether or not the other person was
             | lying to me. So I simplified to this.
             | 
             | I'd love another simple spatial reasoning problem that's
             | very easy for humans but LLMs struggle with, which does NOT
             | have a binary output.
        
           | yencabulator wrote:
           | I think it's pretty random. qwen3:4b got it correct once, on
           | re-run it told me the coin is actually behind the mirror, and
           | then did this brilliant maneuver:                 - The
           | question is **not** asking for the location of the coin, but
           | its **identity**.       - The coin is simply a **coin**, and
           | the trick is in the riddle's wording.            ---
           | ### Final Answer:            $$       \boxed{coin}       $$
        
         | baxtr wrote:
         | This reads like a great story with a tragic ending!
        
         | nopinsight wrote:
         | Current models are quite far away from human-level physical
         | reasoning (paper below). An upcoming version of models trained
         | on world simulation will probably do much better.
         | 
         | PHYBench: Holistic Evaluation of Physical Perception and
         | Reasoning in Large Language Models
         | 
         | https://phybench-official.github.io/phybench-demo/
        
           | horhay wrote:
           | This is more about a physics math aptitude test. You can
           | already see that the best model in math is saturating it
           | halfway. It might not indicate its usefulness in actual
           | physical reasoning, or at the very least, it seems like a bit
           | of a stretch.
        
         | mrkeen wrote:
         | As they say, we shouldn't judge AI by the current state-of-the-
         | art, but by how far and fast it's progressing. I can't wait to
         | see future models get it even more wrong than that.
        
           | kaoD wrote:
           | Personally (anecdata) I haven't experienced any practical
           | progress in my day-to-day tasks for a long time, no matter
           | how good they became at gaming the benchmarks.
           | 
           | They keep being impressive at what they're good at
           | (aggregating sources to solve a very well known problem) and
           | terrible at what they're bad at (actually thinking through
           | novel problems or old problems with few sources).
           | 
           | E.g. all ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini were absolutely terrible
           | at generating Liquidsoap[0] scripts. It's not even that
           | complex, but there's very little information to ingest about
           | the problem space, so you can actually tell they are not
           | "thinking".
           | 
           | [0] https://www.liquidsoap.info/
        
             | prox wrote:
             | Absolutely, as soon as they hit that mark where things get
             | really specialized, they start failing a lot. They do
             | generalizations on well documented areas pretty good. I
             | only use it for getting a second opinion as it can search
             | through a lot of documents quickly and find me alternative
             | means.
        
               | Filligree wrote:
               | They have broad knowledge, a lot of it, and they work
               | fast. That _should_ be a useful combination-
               | 
               | And indeed it is. Essentially every time I buy something
               | these days, I use Deep Research (Gemini 2.5) to first
               | make a shortlist of options. It's great at that, and
               | often it also points out issues I wouldn't have thought
               | about.
               | 
               | Leave the final decisions to a super slow / smart
               | intelligence (a human), by all means, but for people who
               | claim that LLMs are useless I can only conclude that they
               | haven't tried very hard.
        
             | jim180 wrote:
             | Absolutely. All models ar terrible with Objective-C and
             | Swift, compared to let's say JS/HTML/Python.
             | 
             | However, I've realized that Claude Code is extremely useful
             | for generating somewhat simple landing pages for some of my
             | projects. It spits out static html+js which is easy to
             | host, with somewhat good looking design.
             | 
             | The code isn't the best and to some extent isn't
             | maintainable by a human at all, but it gets the job done.
        
               | ggregoryarms wrote:
               | Building a basic static html landing page is ridiculously
               | easy though. What js is even needed? If it's just an html
               | file and maybe a stylesheet of course it's easy to host.
               | You can apply 20 lines of css and have a decent looking
               | page.
               | 
               | These aren't hard problems.
        
               | apercu wrote:
               | > These aren't hard problems.
               | 
               | So why do so many LLMs fail at them?
        
               | bboygravity wrote:
               | And humans also.
        
               | jim180 wrote:
               | Laziness mostly - no need to think about design, icons
               | and layout (responsiveness and all that stuff).
               | 
               | These are not hard problems obviously, but getting to
               | 80%-90% is faster than doing it by hand and in my cases
               | that was more than enough.
               | 
               | With that being said, AI failed for the rest 10%-20% with
               | various small visual issues.
        
               | snoman wrote:
               | A big part of my job is building proofs of concept for
               | some technologies and that usually means some webpage to
               | visualize that the underlying tech is working as
               | expected. It's not hard, doesn't have to look good at
               | all, and will never be maintained. I throw it away a few
               | weeks later.
               | 
               | It used take me an hr or two to get it all done up
               | properly. Now it's literal seconds. It's a handy tool.
        
               | sheepscreek wrote:
               | > These aren't hard problems.
               | 
               | Honestly, that's the best use-case for AI currently.
               | Simple but laborious problems.
        
               | apercu wrote:
               | Interesting, I'll have to try that. All the "static" page
               | generators I've tried require React....
        
               | jimvdv wrote:
               | I like using Vercel v0 for frontend
        
               | copperroof wrote:
               | I've gotten 0 production usable python out of any LLM.
               | Small script to do something trivial, sure. Anything I'm
               | going to have to maintain or debug in the future, not
               | even close. I think there is a _lot_ of terrible python
               | code out there training LLMs, so being a more popular
               | language is not helpful. This era is making transparent
               | how low standards really are.
        
               | thelittleone wrote:
               | Different experience here. Production code in banking and
               | finance for backend data analysis and reporting. Sure the
               | code isn't perfect, but doesn't need to be. It's saving
               | >50% effort and the analysis results and reporting are of
               | at least as good a standard as human developed
               | alternatives.
        
               | overfeed wrote:
               | > I've gotten 0 production usable python out of any LLM
               | 
               | Fascinating, I wonder how you use it because once I
               | decompose code to modules and function signatures,
               | Claude[0] is pretty good at implementing Python
               | functions. I'd say it one-shots 60% of the times, I have
               | to tweak the prompt or adjust the proposed diffs 30%, and
               | the remaining 10% is unusable code that I end up writing
               | by hand. Other things Claude is even better at: writing
               | tests, simple refactors within a module, authoring first-
               | draft docstrings, adding context-appropriate type hints.
               | 
               | 0. Local LLMs like Gemma3, Qwen-coder seem to be in the
               | same ballpark in terms of capabilities, it's just that
               | they are much slower on my hardware. Except for the 30b
               | Qwen3 MoE that was released a day ago, that one is
               | freakin' fast.
        
               | cmorgan31 wrote:
               | I agree - you have to treat them like juniors and provide
               | the same context you would someone who is still learning.
               | You can't assume it's correct but where it doesn't matter
               | it is a productivity improvement. The vast majority of
               | the code I write doesn't even go into production so it's
               | fantastic for my usage.
        
               | startupsfail wrote:
               | Try o4-mini-high. It's getting there.
        
               | motbus3 wrote:
               | Maybe with the next got version, gpt-4.003741
        
             | krosaen wrote:
             | I'm curious what kind of prompting or context you are
             | providing before asking for a liquid soap script - or if
             | you've tried using Cursor and providing a bunch of context
             | with documentation about liquid soap as part of it. My
             | guess was these kinds of things get the models to perform
             | much better. I have seen this work with internal APIs /
             | best practices / patterns.
        
               | kaoD wrote:
               | Yes, I used Cursor and tried providing both the whole
               | Liquidsoap book or the URL to the online reference just
               | in case the book was too large for context or it was
               | triggering some sort of RAG.
               | 
               | Not successful.
               | 
               | It's not that it didn't do what I wanted: most of the
               | time it didn't even run. Iterating on the error messages
               | just arrived at progressively dumber not-solutions and
               | running in circles.
        
               | krosaen wrote:
               | Oh man, that's dissapointing.
        
               | senordevnyc wrote:
               | What model?
        
               | kaoD wrote:
               | I'm on Pro two-week trial so I tried a mix of mainstream
               | premium models (including reasoning ones) + letting
               | Cursor route me to the "best" model or whatever they call
               | it.
        
             | jang07 wrote:
             | this problem is always going to exist in these models,
             | these models are hungry for good data
             | 
             | if there is focus on improving the model on something, the
             | method do it is known, its just about priority
        
             | darepublic wrote:
             | Yes similar experience querying gpt about lesser known
             | frameworks. Had o1 stone cold hallucinate some non existent
             | methods I could find no trace of from googling. Would not
             | budge on the matter either. Basically you have to provide
             | the key insight yourself in these cases to get it unstuck,
             | or just figure it out yourself. After its dug into a
             | problem to some degree you get a feel for whether continued
             | prompting on the subject is going to be helpful or just
             | more churn
        
           | 42lux wrote:
           | Haven't seen much progress in base models since gpt4. Deep
           | thinking and whatever else came in the last year are just
           | bandaids hiding the shortcomings of said models and were
           | achievable before with the right tooling. The tooling got
           | better the models themselves are just marginally better.
        
         | animal531 wrote:
         | They all are using these tests to determine their worth, but to
         | be honest they don't convert well to real world tests.
         | 
         | For example I tried Deepseek for code daily over a period of
         | about two months (vs having used ChatGPT before), and its
         | output was terrible. It would produce code with bugs, break
         | existing code when making additions, totally fail at
         | understanding what you're asking etc.
        
           | ggregoryarms wrote:
           | Exactly. If I'm going to be solving bugs, I'd rather they be
           | my own.
        
         | mromanuk wrote:
         | I was expecting a different outcome, that you tell us that
         | Qwen3 nailed at first.
        
         | laurent_du wrote:
         | I do the same with a small math problem and so far only Qwen3
         | got it right (tested all thinking models). So your mileage may
         | vary, as they say!
        
         | claiir wrote:
         | Same experience with my personal benchmarks. Generally
         | unimpressed with Qwen3.
        
         | throwaway743 wrote:
         | My favorite test is "Build an MTG Arena Deck in historic format
         | around <strategy_and_or_cards> in <these_colors>. It must be
         | exactly 60 cards and all cards must be from Arena only. Search
         | all sets/cards currently availble on Arena, new and old".
         | 
         | Many times they'll include cards that are only available in
         | paper and/or go over the limit, and when asked to correct a
         | mistake they'll continue to make mistakes. But recently I found
         | that Claude is pretty damn good now at fixing its mistakes and
         | building/optimizing decks for Arena. Asked it to make a deck
         | based on insights it gained from my current decklist, and what
         | it came up with was interesting and pretty fun to play.
        
         | spaceman_2020 wrote:
         | I don't know about physics, but o3 was able to analyze a floor
         | plan and spot ventilation and circulation issues that even my
         | architect brother wasn't able to spot in a single glance
         | 
         | Maybe it doesn't make physicists redundant, but it's definitely
         | making expertise in more mundane domains way more accessible
        
       | mks_shuffle wrote:
       | Does anyone have insights on the best approaches to compare
       | reasoning models? It is often recommended to use a higher
       | temperature for more creative answers and lower temperature
       | values for more logical and deterministic outputs. However, I am
       | not sure how applicable this advice is for reasoning models. For
       | example, Deepseek-R1 and QwQ-32b recommend a temperature around
       | 0.6, rather than lower values like 0.1-0.3. The Qwen3 blog
       | provides performance comparisons between multiple reasoning
       | models, and I am interested in knowing what configurations they
       | used. However, the paper is not available yet. If anyone has
       | links to papers focused on this topic, please share them here.
       | Also, please feel free to correct me if I'm mistaken about
       | anything. Thanks!
        
         | Alifatisk wrote:
         | Oh really? Should I adjust the temp to 0,6 on QwA-32B? Where
         | did you get these numbers from?
        
           | mks_shuffle wrote:
           | These are recommendations provided on huggingface page under
           | usage guidelines QwQ-32b: https://huggingface.co/Qwen/QwQ-32B
           | DeepSeek-R1: https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1
        
       | omneity wrote:
       | Excellent release by the Qwen team as always. Pretty much the
       | best open-weights model line so far.
       | 
       | In my early tests however, several of the advertised languages
       | are not really well supported and the model is outputting
       | something that only barely resembles them.
       | 
       | Probably a dataset quality issue for low-resource languages that
       | they cannot personally check for, despite the "119 languages and
       | dialects" claim.
        
         | jean- wrote:
         | Indeed, I tried several low-resource Romance languages they
         | claim to support and performance is abysmal.
        
           | vintermann wrote:
           | What size/quantification level? IME, small language
           | performance is one of the things that really suffers from the
           | various tricks that are used to reduce size.
        
           | vitorgrs wrote:
           | Which languages?
        
       | DrNosferatu wrote:
       | Any benchmarks against Claude 3.7 Sonnet?
        
       | croemer wrote:
       | The benchmark results are so incredibly good they are hard to
       | believe. A 30B model that's competitive with Gemini 2.5 Pro and
       | way better than Gemma 27B?
       | 
       | Update: I tested "ollama run qwen3:30b" (the MoE) locally and
       | while it thought much it wasn't that smart. After 3 follow up
       | questions it ended up in an infinite loop.
       | 
       | I just tried again, and it ended up in an infinite loop
       | immediately, just a single prompt, no follow-up: "Write a Python
       | script to build a Fitch parsimony tree by stepwise addition. Take
       | a Fasta alignment as input and produce a nwk string as outpput."
       | 
       | Update 2: The dense one "ollama run qwen3:32b" is much better
       | (albeit slower of course). It still keeps on thinking for what
       | feels like forever until it misremembers the initial prompt.
        
         | rahimnathwani wrote:
         | You tried a 4-bit quantized version, not the original.
         | 
         | qwen3:30b has the same checksum as
         | https://ollama.com/library/qwen3:30b-a3b-q4_K_M
        
           | croemer wrote:
           | What is the original? The blog post doesn't state the
           | quantization they benchmarked.
        
             | rahimnathwani wrote:
             | This 61GB one:
             | https://ollama.com/library/qwen3:30b-a3b-fp16
             | 
             | You can see it's roughly the same size as the one in the
             | official repo (16 files of 4GB each):
             | 
             | https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3-30B-A3B/tree/main
        
               | int_19h wrote:
               | fp16 is overkill though. 8-bit is the sweet spot before
               | perf degradation starts getting noticeable.
        
               | rahimnathwani wrote:
               | I haven't yet seen any evals comparing the original
               | Qwen3-30B-A22B with
               | https://ollama.com/library/qwen3:30b-a3b-q8_0
        
         | coder543 wrote:
         | Another thing you're running into is the context window. Ollama
         | sets a low context window by default, like 4096 tokens IIRC.
         | The reasoning process can easily take more than that, at which
         | point it is forgetting most of its reasoning and any prior
         | messages, and it can get stuck in loops. The solution is to
         | raise the context window to something reasonable, such as 32k.
         | 
         | Instead of this very high latency remote debugging process with
         | strangers on the internet, you could just try out properly
         | configured models on the hosted Qwen Chat. Obviously the
         | privacy implications are different, but running models locally
         | is still a fiddly thing even if it is easier than it used to
         | be, and configuration errors are often mistaken for bad model
         | performance. If the models meet your expectations in a properly
         | configured cloud environment, then you can put in the effort to
         | figure out local model hosting.
        
           | paradite wrote:
           | I can't belive Ollama haven't fix the context window limits
           | yet.
           | 
           | I wrote a step-by-step guide on how to setup Ollama with
           | larger context length a while ago:
           | https://prompt.16x.engineer/guide/ollama
           | 
           | TLDR                 ollama run deepseek-r1:14b       /set
           | parameter num_ctx 8192       /save deepseek-r1:14b-8k
           | ollama serve
        
         | anon373839 wrote:
         | Please check your num_ctx setting. Ollama defaults to a 2048
         | context length and silently truncates the prompt to fit.
         | Maddening.
        
       | alpark3 wrote:
       | The pattern I've noticed with a lot of open source LLMs is that
       | they generally tend to underperform the level that their
       | benchmarks say they should be at.
       | 
       | I haven't tried this model yet and am not in a position to for a
       | couple days, and am wondering if anyone feels that with these.
        
       | WhitneyLand wrote:
       | China is doing a great job raising doubt about any lead the major
       | US labs may still have. This is solid progress across the board.
       | 
       | The new battlefront may be to take reasoning to the level of
       | abstraction and creativity to handle math problems without a
       | numerical answer (for ex: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2503.21934).
       | 
       | I suspect that kind of ability will generalize well to other
       | areas and be a significant step toward human level thinking.
        
         | janalsncm wrote:
         | No kidding. I've been playing around with Hunyuan 2.5 that just
         | came out and it's kind of amazing.
        
           | Alifatisk wrote:
           | Where do you play with it? What shocks you about it? Anything
           | particular?
        
             | janalsncm wrote:
             | 3d.hunyuan.tencent.com
        
           | hangonhn wrote:
           | What do you use to run it? Can it be run locally on a Macbook
           | Pro or something like RTX 5070 TI?
        
             | janalsncm wrote:
             | 3d.hunyuan.tencent.com
        
       | RandyOrion wrote:
       | For ultra large MoEs from deepseek and llama 4, fine-tuning on
       | these models is becoming increasingly impossible for hobbyists
       | and local LLM users.
       | 
       | Small and dense models are what local people really need.
       | 
       | Although benchmaxxing is not good, I still find this release
       | valuable. Thank you Qwen.
        
         | aurareturn wrote:
         | Small and dense models are what local people really need.
         | 
         | Disagreed. Small and dense is dumber and slower for local
         | inferencing. MoEs is what people actually want on local.
        
           | RandyOrion wrote:
           | YMMV.
           | 
           | Parameter efficiency is an important consideration, if not
           | the most important one, for local LLMs because of the
           | hardware constraint.
           | 
           | Do you guys really have GPUs with 80GB VRAM or M3 ultra with
           | 512GB rams at home? If I can't run these ultra large MoEs
           | locally, then these models mean nothing to me. I'm not a
           | large LLM inference provider after all.
           | 
           | What's more, you also lose the opportunities to fine-tune
           | these MoEs when it's already hard to do inference with these
           | MoEs.
        
             | aurareturn wrote:
             | What people actually want is something like GPT4o/o1
             | running locally. That's the dream for local LLM people.
             | 
             | Running a 7b model for fun is not what people actually
             | want. 7b models are very niche oriented.
        
               | RandyOrion wrote:
               | For a local LLM, you can't really ask for a certain
               | performance level, it is what it is.
               | 
               | Instead, you can ask for the architecture, be it dense or
               | MoE.
               | 
               | Besides, let's assume the best open weight LLM for now is
               | deepseek r1, is it practical for you to run r1 locally?
               | If not, r1 means nothing to you.
               | 
               | Maybe r1 will be surpassed by llama 4 behemoth. Is it
               | practical for you to run behemoth locally? If not,
               | behemoth also means nothing to you.
        
       | gtirloni wrote:
       | > We believe that the release and open-sourcing of Qwen3 will
       | significantly advance the research and development of large
       | foundation models
       | 
       | How does "open-weighting" help other researchers/companies?
        
         | aubanel wrote:
         | There's already a lot of info in there: model architecture and
         | mechanics.
         | 
         | Using the model to generate synthetic data also allows to
         | distil its reasoning power into other models that you train,
         | which is very powerful.
         | 
         | On top of these, Qwen's technical reports follow model releases
         | by some time, they're generally very information rich. For
         | instance, check this report for Qwen Omni, it's really good:
         | https://huggingface.co/papers/2503.20215
        
       | lurenjia wrote:
       | 119 languages and dialects, but no minority languages used in
       | China like Mongolian, Tibetan, Uyghur, or Zhuang are listed.
       | Interesting.
        
       | throwaway888abc wrote:
       | Link to direct chat https://chat.qwen.ai/
        
       | strangescript wrote:
       | The 0.6B model is wild. I like to experiment with tiny models,
       | and this thing is the new baseline.
        
       | Mi3q24 wrote:
       | The chat is the most annoying page ever. If I _must_ be logged in
       | to test it, then the modal to log in should not have the option
       | "stay logged out". And if I choose the option "stay logged out"
       | it should let me enter my test questions without popping up again
       | and again.
        
       | deeThrow94 wrote:
       | Anyone have an interesting problem they were trying to solve than
       | qwen3 managed?
        
       | guybedo wrote:
       | fwiw here's this thread in a more structured format:
       | https://extraakt.com/extraakts/community-reaction-to-qwen3-a...
        
       | metzpapa wrote:
       | Surprisingly good image generation
        
       | paradite wrote:
       | Thinking takes way too long for it to be useful in practice.
       | 
       | It takes 5 minutes to generate first non-thinking token in my
       | testing for a slightly complex task via Parasail and Deepinfra on
       | OpenRouter.
       | 
       | https://x.com/paradite_/status/1917067106564379070
       | 
       | Update:
       | 
       | Finally got it work after waiting for 10 minutes.
       | 
       | Published my eval result, surprisingly non-thinking version did
       | slightly better on visualization task:
       | https://x.com/paradite_/status/1917087894071873698
        
       | simonw wrote:
       | As is now traditional for new LLM releases, I used Qwen 3 (32B,
       | run via Ollama on a Mac) to summarize this Hacker News
       | conversation about itself - run at the point when it hit 112
       | comments.
       | 
       | The results were kind of fascinating, because it appeared to
       | confuse my system prompt telling it to summarize the conversation
       | with the various questions asked in the post itself, which it
       | tried to answer.
       | 
       | I don't think it did a great job of the task, but it's still
       | interesting to see its "thinking" process here:
       | https://gist.github.com/simonw/313cec720dc4690b1520e5be3c944...
        
         | littlestymaar wrote:
         | Aren't all Qwen models known to perform poorly with system
         | prompt though?
        
           | notfromhere wrote:
           | Qwen does decently, DeepSeek doesn't like system prompts. For
           | Qwen you really have to play with parameters
        
           | simonw wrote:
           | I hadn't heard that, but it would certainly explain why the
           | model made a mess of this task.
           | 
           | Tried it again like this, using a regular prompt rather than
           | a system prompt (with the https://github.com/simonw/llm-
           | hacker-news plugin for the hn: prefix):                 llm
           | -f hn:43825900 \       'Summarize the themes of the opinions
           | expressed here.       For each theme, output a markdown
           | header.       Include direct "quotations" (with author
           | attribution) where appropriate.       You MUST quote directly
           | from users when crediting them, with double quotes.       Fix
           | HTML entities. Output markdown. Go long. Include a section of
           | quotes that illustrate opinions uncommon in the rest of the
           | piece' \       -m qwen3:32b
           | 
           | This worked much better! https://gist.github.com/simonw/3b7db
           | b2432814ebc8615304756395...
        
             | littlestymaar wrote:
             | Wow, it hallucinates quotes a lot!
        
             | croemer wrote:
             | Seems to truncate the input to only 2048 input tokens
        
               | simonw wrote:
               | Oops! That's an Ollama default setting. You can fix that
               | by increasing the num_ctx setting - I'll try running this
               | again.
               | 
               | The num_predict setting controls output size.
        
         | hbbio wrote:
         | I also have a benchmark that I'm using for my nanoagent[1]
         | controllers.
         | 
         | Qwen3 is impressive in some aspects but it thinks too much!
         | 
         | Qwen3-0.6b is showing even better performance than Llama 3.2
         | 3b... but it is 6x slower.
         | 
         | The results are similar to Gemma3 4b, but the latter is 5x
         | faster on Apple M3 hardware. So maybe, the utility is to run
         | better models in cases where memory is the limiting factor,
         | such as Nvidia GPUs?
         | 
         | [1] github.com/hbbio/nanoagent
        
           | phh wrote:
           | What's cool with those models is that you can tweak the
           | thinking process, all the way down to "no thinking". It's
           | maybe not available in your inference engine though
        
             | hbbio wrote:
             | Feel free to add a PR :)
             | 
             | What is the parameter?
        
               | ammo1662 wrote:
               | Just add "/no_think" in your prompt.
               | 
               | https://qwenlm.github.io/blog/qwen3/#advanced-usages
        
               | hbbio wrote:
               | Thanks!
               | 
               | Turns out just is not the word here. My benchmark is made
               | using conversations, where there is a SystemMessage and
               | some structured content in a UserMessage.
               | 
               | But Qwen3 seems to ignore /no_think when appended to the
               | SystemMessage. I can try to add it to the structured
               | content but that will be a bit weird. Would have been
               | better to have a "think" parameter like temperature.
        
               | simonw wrote:
               | Hah, and now we can't summarize this thread any more
               | because your comment will turn thinking off!
        
               | Casteil wrote:
               | FWIW, their readme states /nothink - and that's what
               | works for me.
               | 
               | >/think and /nothink instructions: Use those words in the
               | system or user message to signify whether Qwen3 should
               | think. In multi-turn conversations, the latest
               | instruction is followed.
               | 
               | https://github.com/QwenLM/Qwen3/blob/main/README.md
        
         | manmal wrote:
         | One person on Reddit claimed the first unsloth release was
         | buggy - if you used that, maybe you can retry with the fixed
         | version?
        
           | hobofan wrote:
           | I think this was only regarding the chat template that was
           | provided in the metadata (this was also broken in the
           | official release). However, I doubt that this would impact
           | this test, as most inference frameworks will just error if
           | provided with a broken template.
        
           | daemonologist wrote:
           | It was - Unsloth put up a message on their HF for a while to
           | only use the Q6 and larger. I'm not sure to what extent this
           | affected prediction accuracy though.
        
         | anentropic wrote:
         | This sounds like a task where you wouldn't want to use the
         | 'thinking' mode
        
         | claiir wrote:
         | o1-preview had this same issue too! You'd give it a long
         | conversation to summarize, and if the conversation ended with a
         | question, o1-preview would answer that, completely ignoring
         | your instructions.
         | 
         | Generally unimpressed with Qwen3 from my own personal set of
         | problems.
        
       | jasonjmcghee wrote:
       | I've been testing the unsloth quantization:
       | Qwen3-235B-A22B-Q2_K_L
       | 
       | It is by far the best local model I've ever used. Very impressed
       | so far.
       | 
       | Llama 4 was a massive disappointment, so I'm having a blast.
       | 
       | Claude Sonnet 3.7 is still better though.
       | 
       | ---
       | 
       | Also very impressed with qwen3-30b-a3b - so fast for how smart it
       | is (i am using the 0.6b for speculative decoding). very fun to
       | use.
       | 
       | ---
       | 
       | I'm finding that the models want to give over-simplified
       | solutions, and I was initially disappointed, but I added some
       | stuff about how technical solutions should be written in the
       | system prompt and they are being faithful to it.
        
       | methuselah_in wrote:
       | it gave me same answer like chat gpt for my query. haven't
       | refined it either.
        
       | tjwebbnorfolk wrote:
       | How is it that these models boast these amazing benchmark
       | results, but using it for 30 seconds it feels way worse than
       | Gemma3?
        
         | manmal wrote:
         | Are you running the full versions, or quantized? Some models
         | just don't quantize well.
        
       | pornel wrote:
       | I've asked the 32b model to edit a TypeScript file of a web
       | service, and while "thinking" it decided to write me a word
       | counter in Python instead.
        
       | eden-u4 wrote:
       | I dunno, these reasoning models seems kinda "dumb" because they
       | try to bootstrap itself via reasoning, even though a simple
       | direct answer might not exist (for example key information are
       | missing for a proper answer).
       | 
       | Ask something like: "Ravioli: x = y: France, what could be x and
       | y?" (it thought for 500s and the answers were "weird")
       | 
       | Or "Order from left to right these items ..." and give partial
       | information on their relative position, eg Laptop is on the left
       | of the cup and the cup is between the phone and the notebook.
       | (Didn't have enough patience nor time to wait the thinking
       | procedure for this)
        
         | imiric wrote:
         | IME all "reasoning" models do is confuse themselves, because
         | the underlying problem of hallucination hasn't been solved. So
         | if the model produces 10K tokens of "reasoning" junk, the
         | context is poisoned, and any further interaction will lead to
         | more junk.
         | 
         | I've had much better results from non-"reasoning" models by
         | judging their output, doing actual reasoning myself, and then
         | feeding new ideas back to them to steer the conversation. This
         | too can go astray, as most LLMs tend to agree with whatever the
         | human says, so this hinges on me being actually right.
        
       | redbell wrote:
       | I'm not sure if it's just me _hallucinating_ , but it seems like
       | with every new model release, it suddenly tops all the benchmark
       | charts--sometimes leaving the competition in the dust. Of course,
       | only real-world testing by actual users across diverse tasks can
       | truly reveal a model's performance. That said, I still find a
       | sense of excitement and hope for the future of AI every time a
       | new _open-source_ model is released.
        
         | nusl wrote:
         | Yeah, but their comparison tables appear a bit skewed. o3
         | doesn't feature, nor does Claude 3.7
        
           | Alifatisk wrote:
           | That's why we wait for third-party benchmarks
        
       | throwaway472 wrote:
       | 8b model seems extremely resistant to produce sexual content.
       | Can't jailbreak no matter what prompt. Also unusable for coding
       | in my tests.
       | 
       | Not sure what it's supposed to be used for.
        
         | RandyOrion wrote:
         | For jailbreak, you can have a test on this.
         | 
         | https://github.com/elder-plinius/L1B3RT4S/blob/main/ALIBABA....
        
       | ljosifov wrote:
       | I'm enjoying this ngl. :-) Alibaba_Qwen did themselves proud--top
       | marks!
       | 
       | Qwen3-30B-A3B, a MoE 30B - with only 3B active at any one time I
       | presume? - 4bit MLX in lmstudio, with speculative decoding via
       | Qwen3-0.6B 8bit MLX, on an oldish M2 mbp first try delivered 24
       | tps(!!) -
       | 
       | 24.29 tok/sec * 1953 tokens * 3.25s to first token * Stop reason:
       | EOS Token Found * Accepted 1092/1953 draft tokens (55.9%)
       | 
       | Thank you to LMStudio, MLX and huggingface too. :-) After decades
       | of not finding enough reasons for an MBP, suddenly ASI was it.
       | And it's delivered beyond any expectations I had, already.
       | 
       | Did I mention I seem to have become NN PDP enthusiast, an AI
       | maximalist? ;-) I thought them people over-excitable, if
       | benevolent. Then the thought of trusting Trump-Putin on decisions
       | like thermo-nuclear war ending us all, over ChatGPT and its
       | reasoning offspring, converted me. AI is our only chance at
       | existential salvation--ignore doom risk.
        
       | greenavocado wrote:
       | The large Qwen 3 is stepping on the heels of Claude
       | 
       | https://raw.githubusercontent.com/KCORES/kcores-llm-arena/re...
        
       | arnaudsm wrote:
       | There are no benchmarks on the 8B & 14B models, the most popular
       | on consumer hardware. Are they hiding something? Did anyone
       | benchmark them?
       | 
       | And why did they hide the generalist benchmarks like MMLU-pro &
       | TruthfulQA?
       | 
       | I wish we had proper public benchmarks that are up to date.
       | LMarena was proven useless by the Llama4 scandal, and LiveBench
       | is unrealistic and misses too many models.
        
       | Alifatisk wrote:
       | Can't wait for the benchmarks as artificialanalysis.ai
        
       | Tepix wrote:
       | I did a little variant of the classic river boat animal problem:
       | 
       | "so you're on one side of the river with 2 wolves and 4 sheep and
       | a boat that can carry 2 entities. The wolves eat the sheep when
       | they are left alone with the sheep. How do you get them all
       | across the river?"
       | 
       | ChatGPT (free+reasoning) came up with a solution with 11 moves,
       | it didn't think about going back empty.
       | 
       | Qwen3 figured out the optimal solution with 7 moves and
       | summarized it nicely:                   First, move the wolves to
       | the right to free the left shore of predators.         Then
       | shuttle the sheep in pairs, returning with wolves when necessary
       | to keep both sides safe.         Finally, return the wolves to
       | the right when all sheep are across.
        
         | roywiggins wrote:
         | My favorite variant is the trivial one (one item). Most of the
         | models now are wise to it though, but for a while they'd
         | cheerfully take the boat back and forth, occasionally
         | hallucinating wolves, etc.
        
         | heroprotagonist wrote:
         | What if we add 3 cats, but they can ride alone or on a single
         | sheep's back, and wolves will always attack the cat first but
         | leave the sheep alone if the cat is not on a sheep, but will
         | attack both cat and sheep at same time if cat is riding a
         | sheep. Wolves can each only make one attack while crossing.
         | 
         | Claude's 7 step for the original turns to 11 steps for this
         | variant.
        
       | CMay wrote:
       | The Qwen3 32B dense model just fails for me due to a template
       | issue, but the Qwen3 30B A3B model does work. I think the more
       | dense the model is at a small number of active parameters, the
       | more sensitive a model can be to quantization. Only have 24GB of
       | VRAM and have been using a 4-bit quantization which I use for
       | most models.
       | 
       | Qwen3 30B A3B is quick since it's MoE, but the results are just
       | unreliable. It uses up all of its speed advantage on really poor
       | reasoning and provides inconsistent answers. You have to crank up
       | the context size to make room for all its very fluff-y thoughts.
       | Since it's going to be wrong anyway, I just use /no_think to
       | disable the thinking and get the wrong answer faster so I can
       | tell it why it's wrong. I'm not sure it's more efficient, it
       | makes me trust it less.
       | 
       | That said, the 0.6B unquantized model supporting reasoning was
       | very interesting and it felt very smart for its size. In a way it
       | has the same issue, though. Very fast, quite smart for the number
       | of active parameters, but not accurate enough on average to
       | matter. Realistically, is that useful to me for most of my use
       | cases? Not feeling like it right now.
       | 
       | By comparison, Gemma 3 27B QAT is incredible at 4-bit
       | quantization and it even has handicaps. It's multi-modal and
       | multi-lingual, has obscure internet knowledge from decades ago
       | that no other offline model has ever demonstrated (even if it
       | hallucinates a bit of it), yet still gives me responses that are
       | just smarter, better at following careful instructions and more
       | useful than these fancy newer models that don't have those
       | constraints.
       | 
       | It doesn't help that Qwen3 is a censored Chinese model forced to
       | cover up CCP's litter in the litterbox. Sure, most models are
       | censored in some way to avoid providing dangerous information,
       | but the nature of the censorship in Chinese models is to cover up
       | the CCP's failure. US models will gladly talk about anybody's
       | failure, which is good, so we can avoid failure in the future.
       | 
       | Still, I am looking forward to trying the Qwen3 32B dense model
       | when support for it is fixed, because QwQ was useful for a while
       | there and this could be a nice iteration on that.
        
         | Havoc wrote:
         | >The Qwen3 32B dense model just fails for me due to a template
         | issue,
         | 
         | You're likely either using an old one or the broken on (repo
         | second state). Try the ones unsloth uploaded
         | 
         | Definitely works for me on LM studio
        
           | CMay wrote:
           | Think I tried both the Unsloth and original yesterday, but it
           | looks like the model got updated today so I'm downloading the
           | new version. We'll see how that goes!
        
           | CMay wrote:
           | Ok, so Qwen3 32B works now with the update.
           | 
           | It seems much better than the Qwen3 30B A3B for quantized
           | local use from what I can tell so far. Not sure yet how it
           | compares to Gemma 3, but it's at least not clearly worse. It
           | definitely does a much better job of formatting output in a
           | friendlier way than Gemma does, but that's not as critical to
           | me.
           | 
           | I suspect many people are getting even worse results out of
           | the A3B than I did, since I saw downloads defaulting to 3-bit
           | quants, but even at a higher quant, for local use it just
           | isn't there yet.
           | 
           | I'm sure there are plenty of use cases for the low active
           | parameter MoE models like sentiment analysis, summaries, etc,
           | but for anything real I'll stick to the dense models. It
           | makes me wonder if Qwen3 has similar problems that Llama 4
           | had, trying to be a big MoE model with low active parameters
           | producing spotty results.
           | 
           | Qwen3 32B is quite usable, though. The problem I have with it
           | so far is that it seems worse at instruction following,
           | language translation and inferring the meaning of my prompt
           | than Gemma 3. This isn't ideal, because if it can't follow
           | instructions, you can't easily shape its reasoning/response
           | to account for its issues.
           | 
           | One of my prompts simply asks it to do some translation and
           | it occasionally feeds in Chinese characters. That's just not
           | going to be usable for that scenario. Gemma 3's language
           | consistency and quality is closer to production ready.
           | 
           | Gemma 3 does have its own problems with translation though,
           | because if you instruct it to translate and what you want to
           | translate is "what do you know?", it will instead go on
           | talking about its capabilities rather than translating the
           | language. You have to use a few tricks to prevent it from
           | doing that.
        
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