I've played both. The GM plays tremendously differently than Stockfish.

Engines - specifically heuristically-driven ones like Stockfish - don't play like a strong GM. They play engine-perfect chess, which isn't how a GM plays with any consistency.

I'm only a decent amateur (1550 USCF) but when I lose to a titled player it's largely explainable in human terms how it happened.

I think the point is that a larger model with far less reasoning time solves the problem just fine. Which of course is the tradeoff: The smaller the model, the more reasoning you need to get decent answers to tough questions.

> I can imagine a curve where for a given level of “intelligence” you either need model size, or inference time (“test time compute”), and can somewhat trade one for the other.

This is exactly what was shown on Luna/Terra/Sol tradeoffs - Luna requires much higher reasoning efforts to approach Terra/Sol on lower reasoning. Which is fine, of course, no complaints - but true.

Crazy it's still the only video understanding endpoint. It's what I use it for and no other model even offers a competitor.

You probably can't build such a model without unlimited access to YouTube and Google has been tightening the screws on that over the years pretty systematically.

to be fair, all it's doing is sampling the frames and maybe doing transcription, if I'm not mistaken. So you can do it with the other models too, you just need to sample the frames yourself and do the transcript yourself

it does this at a variable rate of frames which you can set - not sure if it is transcribing or natively understanding audio, but I think it's the latter since it is much faster than most transcription models I am aware of

Regardless you are right - I can roll my own.... but why

Great point.

The EA group have a ton of parallels to the Scientologists, so all of this is not surprising.

This is what I've been waiting for. We are still using fine-tuned deployments of Qwen3.6-27B with a lot of success but could use a bump in intelligence. Here's hoping.

How and where do you finetune it?

I use Modal for fine tuning and unsloth mostly.

Easy to do with Unsloth Studio.

I asked an adjacent question to a broker friend who flatly replied: "Not interested in being served a Wells Notice."

Which more or less answered the question for me, even if he was being a bit hyperbolic.

Gets a 100% on Pangram. Stuff is so distracting. Write your own posts, FFS. Or at least pass it through "humanizer" type plugins.

dash dash "--" on a lot of systems and word processors turns it into the em-dash automatically