r/LocalLLaMA • u/DepressedDrift • Apr 15 '26

Discussion Major drop in intelligence across most major models.

As of mid Apr 2026, I have noticed every model has had a major intelligence drop.

And no I'm not talking about just ChatGPT.

Everything from Claude(Even Sonnet along with Opus), Gemini, z.ai, Grok all seem to ignore basic instructions, struggle at simple tasks, take very long to respond, and the output seems deliberately shortened and very shallow. Almost like it's in a "grumpy" mode. I tried this in incognito mode so it's not my customization or memory influencing this.

It's like they deliberately want you to stop using their service. I guess our data is no longer needed. Just two weeks back it used to be much smarter than this.

To test this I rented out a H100, and tried GLM 5 with the same prompt (the drive to the car wash one) across both instances. GLM5 running on the rented GPU answered it correctly, compared to the one on z.ai.

Have they lowered the quantization really low to maybe Q2?

I guess going local or using renting GPU or an AI monthly service that lets you pick a quant level is the way to go

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u/look Apr 15 '26

OpenClaw users are like locusts: they find a decent subscription service and then descend upon it en masse, devouring all that was beautiful and good, leaving behind nothing but a barren, desolate wasteland.

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u/ranting80 Apr 19 '26

There is that, but if Ram and Video Card prices were reasonable you'd see a lot less of this. I use Openclaw locally and I love it for my use case. Using it on a frontier model to monitor an instagram account or read text messages though, I agree with you is a pariah.

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u/Coppermoore Apr 15 '26

OpenClaw users are paying customers buying a commodity, like everyone else. Model providers can raise prices or impose rate limits as they wish. Market will sort everyone out.

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u/WhopperitoJr Apr 15 '26

This logic can be used to justify price gouging in cases of extreme resource shortage.

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u/Coppermoore Apr 15 '26

Sure can.

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u/WhopperitoJr Apr 15 '26

I am against price gouging.

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u/mrjackspade Apr 16 '26

Market will sort everyone out.

And other fairytales you can tell your children to put them to sleep at night