About whether open models rival GPT-3.5, after an amateur's 7B model topped leaderboards.
Has this happened?
Yes 89 (71%)Not sure 28 (22%)No 9 (7%)
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
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About whether open models rival GPT-3.5, after an amateur's 7B model topped leaderboards.
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
Note that it only includes gpt-3.5-turbo (the current iteration), not the original gpt-3.5. It's not exactly a secret that "turbo" models are noticeably dumber than the originals, whatever OpenAI says. There's no free lunch - that's why it's so much cheaper and faster...
That said, we do have public 120b models now that genuinely feel better than the original gpt-3.5.
The holy grail remains beating gpt-4 (or even gpt-4-turbo). This seems to be out of reach on consumer hardware at least...