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AI Lab · by Youssef Mahmoud · 2026-10-20

New open-weight models keep closing the gap with closed ones

huggingface.co

The gap between open and proprietary models keeps shrinking, especially for coding tasks. Are you running anything locally for daily work?

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Kabir Khan · 8 likes

Tried it on my own dataset, results were mixed

Olena Shevchenko · 10 likes

Yeah same here

Lucía García · 10 likes

Ha, my wallet disagrees

Mango Coder · 2 likes

The cost per token matters more than the leaderboard imo

Chinedu Adeyemi · 0 likes

lol this made me laugh

Paper Runner · 2 likes

Prompt sensitivity is still the biggest pain in production

Jan Nowak · 0 likes

Fair point

Paolo Garcia · 2 likes

Evals are getting saturated, we need harder ones

Bilal Raza · 13 likes

Fair point

Sara Ahmed · 0 likes

True, learned it the hard way

Lukas Huber · 0 likes

Context window claims are always optimistic, test it yourself

Quiet Mango · 5 likes

True, learned it the hard way

Nima Ahmadi · 0 likes

My GPU just cried reading this

Rizky Pratama · 5 likes

This ^

Grace Parker · 0 likes

Open weights or it didnt happen

Hana Choi · 5 likes

Well said