A tiny 3B model just outperformed Qwen on deep-search and coding benchmarks. At the same time, Claude Sonnet 4.6 is getting Opus-level power at a lower price. The AI race just shifted again.

We’ll talk about:

• Why Nanbeige4.1-3B is shocking the benchmark charts (and what that means for small models)
• How smarter training is flipping the “bigger is better” rule
• Claude Sonnet 4.6’s 1M-token context window and why it makes long-running agents cheaper
• Why compute efficiency and pricing might decide the next AI winners

Keywords: Claude Sonnet 4.6, Opus 4.6, OSWorld, AI agents, 1M token context, reinforcement learning

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