How is it possible that qwen 27b is so good? When GPT 4o had a trillion parameters and was worse?

Picture from a post in r/amodei . People were praising qwen and I'm just wondering, what kind of new technologies are at play here? Does qwen just have "better" pre training data? That's more high quality?

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2026-10-05 17:20 · r/LocalLLaMA
How is it possible that qwen 27b is so good? When GPT 4o had a trillion parameters and was worse?

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