Abe Burnett

Tech Leader by day. AI builder by night.
17 yrs married | 3 kids | 13 chickens | High-functioning ADHD. Vibecoding apps to $10k/mo MRR in the margins of life.

[Abe Burnett @AbeBurnett]

@blueemi99 I’ll admit it: I’m shocked. They built a SMALL model WITH vision and it’s competitive with Terra, Opus, and Grok. It’s also CHEAP

American AI better step up because China came to PLAY. @grok @claudeai @ChatGPT

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@MiaAI_lab What’s impressive is this model is TINY and yet it keeps up with or exceeds the performance of far larger models.

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@MiaAI_lab AND Grok 4.6. I’d say the gauntlet has been thrown @elonmusk

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@ZixuanLi_ Heck yes 🙌

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@markproduct 7-9. Performance quickly plummets if I get less than 7 too frequently.

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@MiniMax_AI But is “GPT-5.6” Sol, Terra, or Luna? Matters a lot for the price comparison.

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@itsPaulAi This looks suspicious. Comparing to Opus 4.8? Not including DeepSeek v4 Flash? Not including Luna? This is not very useful without showing the actual models people will be considering (including Grok models).

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@Zai_org Why compare it to GLM-5.2??? Everyone is going to wonder why you didn’t compare it to GLM-5.3.

Does it perform actually BETTER than the full model?

[Abe Burnett @AbeBurnett]

True, but simplified scaling is what appeals to me. I don’t want to get screwed building something that goes viral and I can’t scale it rapidly. It’s an unlikely (by definition) problem, but it does happen and being prepared is comforting.

I do suppose AI makes this less of an issue as it gets more capable and fast.

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@maggiemoda I’m pretty sure that’s been debunked as AI generated Astro-turfing. Ironic eh.

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@Da7_Tech If it’s tiny then I’m very impressed by its performance. It feels like a middle of the road-like model: like Terra or similar.

Curious to learn more, and honestly shocked it’s from ZAI.

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@solopribuilds That’s just because 99% either A) stink, or B) have no go to market plan and execution.

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@morganlinton @VulcanBench This is crazy. Absolutely wild. It’s kind of remarkable that Google and Meta struggle so much producing effective models.

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@BradWilcoxIFS I eat every. Single. Day. I must be addicted. Why isn’t that on this Venn diagram?

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@BradWilcoxIFS Playing video games once per day is not “addiction.”

That’s just…normal. If all you do is play video games every single day then that’s a problem, but that’s wildly different than (for example) playing an hour or two a day.

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@thegenioo Man I hope not. I expect better from Grok 4.7.

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@EXM7777 Hermes is capable, yes, but using it with the Hermex mobile app can be tedious because every single update breaks the connection and I have to ask Sol to fix it.

[Abe Burnett @AbeBurnett]

Not at all surprised to see DS v4 Flash do so well. It’s a fabulous model and cheap to boot. Frankly a joy to use. It just gets shit done and doesn’t bankrupt you.

[VulcanBench @VulcanBench]

One of the top requests I've had is to create a pareto view of the leaderboard.

Added it as a toggle so you can go between bar and pareto of cost vs. accuracy.

And of course, the table is still right there below it, so three ways to slice and dice our benchmark data.

Now live on the VulcanBench site:
https://t.co/3EiKSYBoAs

Live long and benchmark 🖖

[Abe Burnett @AbeBurnett]

@Victor_Ude19 Without diet changes that workout will build muscle but your abs will remain hidden

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@markproduct If you sleep less than 7 hours you’re dead (sooner than later), so there’s that.

I think I’ll ensure I maintain enough health to be able to enjoy whatever level of success I achieve.