alt Hacker NewsThe news is not in the way to compare models, it’s that Kimi K2.6 (and I’d add Deepseek v4 Pro) are more or less equivalent to Opus and that’s already pretty big.
They are open source and cost waaaay less per token than American models.
I’m using them right now on the $20 Ollama cloud plan and I can actually work with them on my side projects without reaching the limits too much. With Claude Pro $20 plan my usage can barely survive one or two prompts.
And I choose Ollama cloud just because their CLI is convenient to use but their are a lot of other providers for those models so you aren’t even stuck with shitty conditions and usage rules.
To me that’s a pretty bad thing for American economy.
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That is the very reason the open source models exist. Prestige and soft power to influence interest away from American models and hopefully slow down their progress.
I appreciate your reply but you are completely glossing over his point about how head to head model evals are useless lmao
They are no way as good as Opus yet. But Sonnet, yes. Using all in real life.
> for American economy.
There is more to American economy than big tech.
And that's precisely why this has started: https://www.wired.com/story/super-pac-backed-by-openai-and-p...
Or maybe it is a pretty good thing for the American economy that you can get AI at cost rather than monopoly pricing.
You know, for the rest of the economy that is not big tech.