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Models2026-08-20 · source-backed
The 397B MoE scores 86.1 on Terminal-Bench 2.1, 86 on SWE-Bench Verified, 56 on DeepSWE, 92.8 on GPQA Diamond and 44.6 on HLE, which the team frames as comparable to Claude Opus 4.8. The method is a closed self-improvement loop where the model proposes its own tasks and scaffolds for RL rollouts, jointly optimized with GRPO instead of training on human-curated task sets. (Ornith) But a top r/LocalLLaMA commenter's side-by-side shows the 35B-A3B losing to Qwen3.8-27B on Terminal-Bench (68.5 vs 73.0) and DeepSWE (22.0 vs 42.2) while winning NL2Repo (46.2 vs 42.3). So the headline doesn't transfer to the sizes most people can actually run. Worth noting the tension with arXiv 2608.19072 above: self-generated training curricula at the model level, while agents doing model-level strategy selection can't revise their own approach.
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Claude Opus built by Anthropic / Shared entities / Shared topic / Earlier coverage / Tension
Linked by a graph relationship (Claude Opus built by Anthropic); both cover Bench, Bench Verified, Claude Opus, LocalLLaMA; overlapping topics (agent, closed, model).
Unsloth released GRPO / Shared entities / Shared topic / Earlier coverage / Tension
Linked by a graph relationship (Unsloth released GRPO); both cover Claude Opus, LocalLLaMA, MoE, Qwen3; overlapping topics (claude, model).
Unsloth released GRPO / Shared entities / Shared topic / Earlier coverage
Linked by a graph relationship (Unsloth released GRPO); both cover Bench, LocalLLaMA, MoE, SWE; overlapping topics (agent, claude, model).
Cursor supports Claude Opus / Shared entities / Shared topic / Earlier coverage
Linked by a graph relationship (Cursor supports Claude Opus); both cover Bench, MoE, SWE, Terminal; overlapping topics (agent, model, task).
Claude Opus built by Anthropic / Shared entities / Shared topic / Earlier coverage
Linked by a graph relationship (Claude Opus built by Anthropic); both cover Bench, LocalLLaMA, MoE, Qwen3; overlapping topics (agent, commenter, model).
Cursor supports Claude Opus / Shared entities / Shared topic / Earlier coverage / Tension
Linked by a graph relationship (Cursor supports Claude Opus); both cover Bench, SWE, Terminal; overlapping topics (model, task).
Shared entities / Shared topic / Earlier coverage
Both cover Bench, DeepSWE, GPQA Diamond, Qwen3; overlapping topics (actually, deepswe); earlier Bench coverage from 2026-08-16.
Both cover Bench, DeepSWE, LocalLLaMA, MoE; overlapping topics (claude, deepswe); earlier Bench coverage from 2026-08-05.