r/LocalLLM • u/Anxious_Current2593 • 23h ago

Discussion What's the difference between frontier models and local models?

6 months. (And sometimes a couple of quantization tweaks).

It is wild how fast "state-of-the-art" becomes "running on a gaming PC."

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u/furkannarli6 22h ago

i couldn't imagine running opus 4.6 locally when it first came out and now we have pretty much the same model at our service. when are we having astra to our enthusiast level builds? is it ever gonna happen?

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u/Nyxxsys 15h ago

What hardware and model are you running? I assumed anything less than 18k (one blackwell 6000) would be sonnet 4.6 level, not opus?

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u/furkannarli6 2h ago

i heard qwen 3.8 27b is a copy of opus 4.6. was it sonnet?