I periodically try to run these models on my MBP M3 Max 128G (which I bought with a mind to run local AI). I have a certain deep research question (in a field that is deeply familiar to me) that I ask when I want to gauge model's knowledge.

So far Opus 4.6 and Gemini Pro are very satisfactory, producing great answers fairly fast. Gemini is very fast at 30-50 sec, Opus is very detailed and comes at about 2-3 minutes.

Today I ran the question against local qwen3.5:35b-a3b - it puffed for 45 (!) minutes, produced a very generic answer with errors, and made my laptop sound like it's going to take off any moment.

Wonder what am I doing wrong?.. How am I supposed to use this for any agentic coding on a large enough codebase? It will take days (and a 3M Peltor X5A) to produce anything useful.

these guys are selling snake oil to the gvt - cz they know they can get cash based on fear.

the Chinese are releasing equivalent models for free or super cheap.

AI costs / energy costs keep going up for American A.I companies

while china benefits from lower costs

so yeah you've to spread F.U.D to survive

The article mentions "Building software at Google's scale is extraordinarily difficult...", which I've seen many times before when one or another of these big corporations has a serious security flaw.

If a company like Google, with its ability to attract the best of the best, cannot handle the complexity of security and safety with SaaS/PaaS products, at what point do we say that perhaps this sector needs much more oversight?

Grok has been and still is the best at incorporating search.

4.20 with its 4 agents puts it back at the top for reasoning as well. As soon as it's added to the API, the benchmarks should show that.

GPT 5.2 loses at everything but they included that

Why don't they show Grok benchmarks?

Yep! I’m not going to give you the satisfaction, considering you ignored the underlying message of what I said and acted like I was making it all about me in your original version of your response comment, when in reality I was obviously making point about corporate feudalism and the widening income inequality gap.

The fact that I make a declining share of peanuts compared to this AI bro selling his soul to serial liar Sam Altman isn’t “about me,” it’s about “me” as in “the working class.”

This is the core of why it’s distasteful for the most excessively privileged people and their enablers to celebrate their wins, and why I feel no obligation to celebrate alongside them nor keep my distaste for them to myself.

Regular people are beyond sick and tired of tech bros like OP trying to “change the world” by shipping our jobs to data centers and shoving depression apps down our childrens’ throats. Now they want us to celebrate with them as they get paid massive salaries and stock awards to design the robots that will finally replace the last bastions of human interaction and craftsmanship.

I believe in collectivism rather than hypercapitalism, and I think that refusing to celebrate hypercapitalist “wins” is the right ideology for me.