Your avatar image checks out. :)

Joke's on them, I'm almost done training FaceBot 9000.

Granted, it's a 1.2B model and the training data is entirely My Little Pony fanfics. It's insane and thinks it's Princess Luna. But it's going to dominate this benchmark.

Ironically, the guys who have tried so far have all been right-wing nutballs as well.

What emergency? Just generally an emergency?

That's not how supply and demand works. When a market is out of economic equilibrium like this, with demand sharply rising, that is literally what drives competitors to arise and to try to increase supply to match. This is fertile ground for exactly that outcome to happen.

Heh, I downloaded that one just recently, I read that it was good at natural prose and I've been working on a little pet project to make a framework for auto-writing short stories based on a simple premise. Haven't tested it extensively yet though.

Sadly they don't seem to have 36B-A3B models on their roadmap any more, they didn't do one for 3.8 either. I agree it was a nice sweet spot between speed and capability, I still use the 3.6 version of 36B-A3B for larger-scale local work. Maybe someone else will aim for that. Or Qwen4 will do something new with the architecture that makes it unnecessary.

I'm really looking forward to seeing what Qwen4 is like. 3.8 was just 3.6 with additional training, my understanding is that Qwen4 is new from the ground up.

Ah yes, less optimism. Exactly what we want out of Star Trek and entertainment in general these days.

It's circling the drain because these are the priorities of the clowns in charge. As desired by the people who elected said clowns.

The most reasonable assumption, yeah.

OP, have you mapped the spots where the mushrooms sprout? Is it humanoid-shaped?

Wouldn't have guessed that he'd be a bit of an unstable fellow.