Tomasz Tunguz burned 84 million tokens on February 28th.

"This week, Alibaba released Qwen3.5-9B, an open-source model that matches Claude Opus 4.1 from December 2025. It runs locally on 12GB of RAM. Three months ago, this capability required a data center. Now it requires a power outlet."

https://tomtunguz.com/qwen-9b-matches-frontier-models/

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