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Dense model, hybrid architecture, native VLM — sees images and video out of the box. The numbers: SWE-bench Pro 61.7 vs Opus4.6 Max's 53.4, LiveCodeBench 90.3 (best at this parameter count), OSWorld 84.3 vs Opus's 72.7 on computer use. Not even close. Qwen keeps punching above its weight on the small model side. I've been benchmarking small-model agent capabilities and nothing outside the Qwen family can actually survive long tasks. 🔗 huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B
. Same 743B base they already had, but pure post-training got coding benchmarks up 50%. 745B total, 44B active. Trained on Huawei Ascend. MIT license, open-source coming. The wild part: Terminal Bench 3.0 went from 4.6 to 28.3 — that's 6x. And they beat every closed-source model on CyberGym for security tasks. Post-training squeeze doing the heavy lifting, not just throwing more params at the problem.
You've probably run into those short videos lately where an agent drives a phone around by itself. This one is called Mika, and it's a free open-source project. It's an Android app that works in the background through accessibility mode, so it can use pretty much any other app you have installed. Reply to someone on WeChat, scroll Xiaohongshu, drop something in a cart and check out. It finds the buttons by looking at the screen. There's no API to wire up, and it doesn't care what resolution your phone is. When it reaches a payment step or a captcha it stops and lets you finish. 🔗 github.com/wangzan101/Mika
Someone on Xiaohongshu posted a while back that she sells phone keyboard skins she made with Codex. Eight, ten yuan a pack. Over a thousand a month. I've been at mine for months. October: a few hundred copies, $1,200 gross. Platform fee 30%, tax 10%, so 60% should have landed. It came to just over a thousand dollars. I still don't know how the math pulled that off. I have an overseas bank account. Once lost $500 to a wire transfer off one. I'd still tell you to take payout through WorldFirst: less hassle, lower fees. You can also get a Hong Kong USD credit card tied to it that spends your WorldFirst balance directly. Digital card is free. Physical is $4. Mainland purchases under ¥200 skip the processing fee, and right now there's 1% cashback.
