🎙️ EP 208: A 3B Model Just Beat Qwen?!
18 February 2026

🎙️ EP 208: A 3B Model Just Beat Qwen?!

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A tiny 3B model just outperformed Qwen on deep-search and coding benchmarks. At the same time, Claude Sonnet 4.6 is getting Opus-level power at a lower price. The AI race just shifted again.

We’ll talk about:

    Why Nanbeige4.1-3B is shocking the benchmark charts (and what that means for small models)How smarter training is flipping the “bigger is better” ruleClaude Sonnet 4.6’s 1M-token context window and why it makes long-running agents cheaperWhy compute efficiency and pricing might decide the next AI winners

Keywords: Claude Sonnet 4.6, Opus 4.6, OSWorld, AI agents, 1M token context, reinforcement learning

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