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Copium Prediction: Google and other major labs will drop new local models over the next few days so they can lead on benchmarks until Qwen 4 sweeps them next week.

We saw this earlier when Gemma 4 dropped just a few days before a previous Qwen release. I feel like a few other labs did the same. Everybody wants that moment in the spotlight where they can lead the benchmarks for at least a day or two before the next Qwen comes in and mops the floor with them. I…

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  1. 2026-10-30 15:29 · r/LocalLLaMA
    Copium Prediction: Google and other major labs will drop new local models over the next few days so they can lead on benchmarks until Qwen 4 sweeps them next week.

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