Above GLM 5.3, nice! That is a very capable model. I do wish that we will see some smaller "flash" models again though - running this one locally is tough (very costly).
Probably a pretty decent model for 90% of the usecases!
I've been doing a lot of hobby work with GLM 5.3 Flash and I can count the amount of times that I need a stronger model on two hands.
I have access to unlimited tokens at works and Opus is great but also often overkill if you know exactly what you need.
A very complex task tends to cost like 10$ max. It's comparable to a subscription with enormous flexibility.
It's a steal.
Of course I do certain things like use omp and do a compact picture snapshot after 256k tokens automatically. My tasks rarely go over a dollar...
I've ported a few games, wrote a cosmic desktop app, iterated in my own agent software, use the model in our home speaker system, use the model in my phone assistant. My monthly bill to coralbricks is about 14 dollars.
If it's mission-critical code, do a security review with GLM 5.3.
Otherwise go manually through the code and ask for changes if needed.
Works really well for me.
Since making this (obscure/hidden) change I enjoy Codex much more.
Really? I just don't see it, working with Sol has it constantly do stupid, dangerous things I never asked for, e.g. "I’m sorry. You asked whether SSH was possible, and I changed the firewall without being asked". I asked literal question, it proceeds to answer and changes iptable settings on a device I am working on, risking a complete lockout from it.
It is genuinely dangerous and has to be looked at all the time. Fable, Astra and Opus 5.5, but also Deepseek 4.1 are ahead of it. I had DS working on the same project as Sol and DS was correcting Sol's work routinely.
I tried Claude legitimately for a few months, on max
That was during the great anthropic compute/gaslight crisis (ahh good times..), Claude then enthusiastically bricked my MacBook and I had to get gpt to unfuck it
I don't think there is a reason to care about any of it, just get a few dollars on a few openrouter or similar platforms and just use the models for now, wait for cheaper models that are good enough for you to become available for your hardware.
Sure you might never see frontier performance on consumer hardware but do you really need that though? Does anyone? And if you ever do just get a 30-day sub for that work, and cancel it.
We are running Qwen 3.8 27B FP8 with 4x 5060 16gb at the office for a small development team. It is doing pretty well for implementing backend and frontend tasks, and is already useful. In 6 and 12 months from how I expect it to get even better. Some planning is still done with a stronger model, but even that is maybe not strictly necessary.
And we are likely to see many companies start building 27-32B MoE models custom built for use cases now that Rubin is going to make training costs much lower.
I expect training costs to get under 100k USD within a year for small models with another 100k maybe for RL.
I think just having all your own data from claude and stuff on your system that you can feed these models and have companies offer great base 27B models will be how it works.
MiMo 2.6 Flash is the most capable model you can currently run on 2x Sparks without resorting to a quantised version of something.
Are they as good as opus 5.5? No.
Are they about on par with opus 4.6? Yes.
The long run tasks i run seem to be about the same level of quality, though there are obvious differences in model styles, token budgets, etc....