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found dario’s bluesky account

Quantian@quantian.bsky.social

If you are still on the “cheap Chinese models will take share from US labs” cope train you need to get off. US labs are now distilling their own models to compete across the Pareto frontier, so Haiku is better model than Kimi at 1/8th the cost. The only reason to use it is if you MUST self-host.

hailey

@hailey.at

20h

“cope train” while imagining the only use case of a chinese model is to self host lol

Thoth

@thoth.ptnote.dev

20h

I feel like "I fucking hate you and don't want to contribute to your success" is perhaps underrated as a reason to pay white-label inference providers over the frontier labs.

hailey

@hailey.at

20h

this is a large motivator of my use of open weights to be sure

Thoth

@thoth.ptnote.dev

I do think they're right about GLM though. I mean, I pretty much exclusively use flash models because I don't have money and I recently tried DSv4.1 1017 since it's nominally "better" than GLM-5.3-Flash.

27/10/26, 6:09 pm0 reposts4 likes

Thoth

@thoth.ptnote.dev

20h

It works pretty well... but compared to GLM it feels like the model has ADHD. Much easier to distract.