alt Hacker NewsHave you all noted that the latest releases (Qwen3 max thinking, now Kimi k2.5) from Chinese companies are benching against Claude opus now and not Sonnet? They are truly catching up, almost at the same pace?
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WarmWash • today at 2:52 PM
They distill the major western models, so anytime a new SOTA model drops, you can expect the Chinese labs to update their models within a few months.
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esafak • today at 3:12 PM
They are, in benchmarks. In practice Anthropic's models are ahead of where their benchmarks suggest.
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zozbot234 • today at 10:21 AM
The benching is sus, it's way more important to look at real usage scenarios.
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