Small open models now beat 2025's frontier, says Ahmad Osman
His post drew about 700 likes.
Ahmad (@TheAhmadOsman) says DeepSeek V4.1 Flash, GLM 5.3 Flash, Qwen 3.8 Next Flash and even Qwen 3.8 27B now outperform every model considered frontier at Christmas 2025, 11 months ago.
The claim highlights how fast smaller open models are catching up.
The post drew about 700 likes.



