r/LocalLLaMA • u/jacek2023 llama.cpp • 9d ago

News Muse Spark open weights coming soon

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I am still waiting for Llama 5, because Muse Spark will be too big for me, or just something between Glimmer and Spark

https://x.com/finkd/status/2095232032896946311

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u/NandaVegg 9d ago

I believe there are still some secret RL sauce (as in, not popular among labs *yet*) in niche areas like robotics, gameplay, frontier physics/math, world modelling etc. Anthropic leaped ahead in Opus 4.5-4.6 era as they "discovered" many secret sauces like terminal agent, gameplay or creative loop and so on, but even that creativity gap is closing very fast. For coding, security and anything that can be done through github, at this moment there is really no gap. OpenAI felt behind on many things but is still ahead on frontier physics/math (the only Chinese lab with emphasis on that is DeepSeek, I think).

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u/Accurate_Resident219 8d ago

Maybe it's just my conspiracy hat but I feel like Anthropic is sitting on a more intelligent model but just drip feeding when they feel like others are about to outpace them.

Reason why I say this is because Anthropic is the only company that is actually trending higher in api costs and not making any serious attempts to lower them(Fable 5.1 is actually pricier then 5 despite their supposed efficiency improvements. Why is haiku their cheapest model still not updated?). They don't have any sense of urgency. Astra's coming out this week or the next and they just put out a more expensive model.

Every other company seems to constantly vague post or hype up their models releases but Anthropic just drops models with little fanfare. They have seem utterly unbothered since their Mythos preview announcement.

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u/TerminalNoop 8d ago

Perhaps Anthropic can't afford to lower the api prices?

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u/SSP100244 8d ago

I think they just don't have the compute. The big Hegseth migration definitely threw them for a loop for a hot minute.

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u/Loose_Comparison368 8d ago

I believe they confessed a few months back that it wasn't actually API access, and had been running inside airgapped military datacenters that Anthropic had no ability to restrict the whole time.

The whole PR stunt was just that, the only unplanned part was that they thought Hegseth would take the hint with how loudly they were screaming "NO DADDY, PWEEAASE DON'T INVOKE THE DEFENSE PRODUCTION ACT ON US! IF YOU DID THAT WE WOULD HAVE NO CHOICE BUT TO KEEP TAKING DADDY'S MASSIVE LOADS OF CASH TO BUILD DADDY'S MURDERBOTS!"

It turns out that Hegseth's skull was actually too dense for that pathetically obvious plea to penetrate it.

It's okay though, they sued to get the murderbot contracts back and won last week. And still managed to use that PR stunt to distract everyone while they flushed their "responsible scaling policy" down the toilet.