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Kimi 2.6 and qwen3.6 is out but still as slow as ever

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How the story developed
7 Aug
IS GLM 5.2, Kimi 2.7 still worth it?
OPINION · WHAT · LocalLLaMA
22 Apr
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Other feeds and industry voices
12 May
What model for coding?

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>I am amazed by the development of locallm in the coding area. Right now im Testing Qwen3.6 27b and it works quite well, even tho this is not made

OPINION · HOW · LocalLLaMAOPEN STORY
21 Apr
Where we are. In a year, everything has changed. Kimi - Minimax - Qwen - Gemma - GLM

<table> <tr><td> <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1srhtvg/where_we_are_in_a_year_everything_has_changed/"> <img alt="Where we are. In a year, everything has

OPINION · WHERE · LocalLLaMAOPEN STORY
5 May
tested four newest open source Kimi K2.6 is the fastest, GLM 5.1 the fanciest, DeepSeek V4 is the most comprehensive, and Xiaomi MiMo is the slowest

<table> <tr><td> <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1t4kkvb/tested_four_newest_open_source_kimi_k26_is_the/"> <img alt="tested four newest open source Kimi K2.6

OPINION · WHAT · LocalLLaMAOPEN STORY
6 May
Ran K2.6 through a third-party coding benchmark: heres how the figures stand up

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>I have been following the akitaonrails coding benchmark which tests against a fixed rails + Rubyllm + docker task rather than vendor-reported

OPINION · HOW · LocalLLaMAOPEN STORY
6 May
I tested Kimi K2.6 vs Claude Opus 4.7 on a weird game coding task

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>Kimi K2.6 has been getting a lot of hype recently, mostly because it seems like a “good enough for coding, way cheaper than frontier models”

OPINION · WHAT · LocalLLaMAOPEN STORY
26 Apr
Qwen3.5/3.6 Coder?

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>With practically all of LocalLlama glazing Qwen 3.5/3.6 for it's coding skills. Along with the fact that Alibaba themselves are focusing on

OPINION · WHAT · LocalLLaMAOPEN STORY
11 May
Why is my Qwen3.6-35B-A3B so much dumber than Qwen3.5-35B-A3B?

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>I'm genuinely unsure if I'm doing something wrong, or if the model is just worse, despite the community enthusiasm. I tend to use it with pi

OPINION · WHEN · LocalLLaMAOPEN STORY
17 Jun
Glm 5.2 vs kimi 2.7 code

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>Has anyone tested both models against each other till now? Which one should I use?</p> </div><!-- SC_ON --> &#32; submitted by &#32; <a

OPINION · WHAT · LocalLLaMAOPEN STORY
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