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The 3B Model Going Toe to Toe with Opus 4.5 In Maths and Coding

A small, energy-efficient AI model (3B parameters) has matched the performance of the much larger Opus 4.5 model in mathematics and coding tasks, challenging assumptions about the necessity of massive compute resources.

read1 min views1 publishedJun 25, 2026

A hummingbird just out-thought an empire of compute. The smallest, most energy-efficient thing in the room just matched the heaviest, most… Continue reading on Towards AI »

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pub.towardsai.net — original article Substrate-Bound Coupling in Human-LLM Interaction LAI #131: A Tool Call Can Succeed and Still Be the Wrong Tool I Built an Azure AI Agent That Passed Every Test. Here’s Why I Still Added a Human Approval Step.
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