LLM Benchmarks
(73 articles)Ditch the API: 8 Open Source LLMs for Local AI in 2026
We tested the top 8 open source LLMs you can run on your own hardware in 2026 — from the 14B Phi-4 to the 671B DeepSeek V3. Here's what's actually worth your...
GLM-5.1 Hits 95% of Claude's Coding Score, Open Source
Zhipu AI's GLM-5.1 scores 94.6% of Claude Opus 4.6's coding performance in testing. Built on GLM-5's open-source SWE-bench record of 77.8%, here's what this...
DGX Spark vs Mac Studio M3 Ultra: $10K AI Showdown
Both cost $10K. Both run Qwen3.5 397B locally. But a dual DGX Spark setup and a Mac Studio M3 Ultra 256GB deliver wildly different experiences — here's who...
Why Frontier AI Benchmarks Are Broken in 2026
A new book by Moritz Hardt argues that benchmark rankings — not scores — are what actually matter. We tested his thesis against every major 2026 AI benchmark.
Krasis vs llama.cpp: Is 10x Faster LLM Inference Real?
Krasis LLM Runtime claims dramatically faster inference than llama.cpp for large MoE models on a single NVIDIA GPU. We break down the real numbers, the...
A $500 GPU Just Beat Claude Sonnet at Coding Tasks
ATLAS, a source-available AI system built by a Virginia Tech student, scores 74.6% on LiveCodeBench using a single $500 consumer GPU — outperforming Claude...
ROCm vs Vulkan Performance: Mi50 Benchmark (4 Models)
New benchmarks pit ROCm 7 nightly against Vulkan on an AMD Mi50 32GB running llama.cpp. Vulkan wins short-context dense inference, but ROCm dominates...
CRYSTAL Benchmark Exposes How AI Models Fake Reasoning
A new benchmark tested 20 multimodal AI models and found 19 of them cherry-pick reasoning steps while skipping actual thinking. The gap between accuracy and...
6 Best Uncensored GGUF Models to Run Locally in 2026
The Qwen3.5-9B uncensored GGUF scene just got interesting. We ranked the top distilled, uncensored models you can actually run on consumer hardware — no cloud,...
OpenAI Splits GPT-5.4 Into Mini & Nano: The Speed vs. Smarts Breakdown
OpenAI's new GPT-5.4 mini and nano are purpose-built for speed, cost efficiency, and high-volume workloads—not just scaled-down GPT-5.4. Here's who should use...
NousCoder-14B vs Claude Code: Open-Source Coding Model Benchmark Showdown
Nous Research's NousCoder-14B benchmark score hits 67.87% on LiveCodeBench v6 — beating every open-source rival at its weight class. Here's how it stacks up...
Nvidia Nemotron Super 3 122B License Update: Rug-Pull Clauses Removed
Nvidia stripped restrictive guardrail termination clauses from the Nemotron Super 3 122B license. Here's exactly what changed, why it matters for production...