Reflection 70B was released two years ago (September 2024)

You may think that jev, OpenClaw or TurboQuant are super cool, but actually the coolest LLM invention happened two years ago As we all know, the best source of reliable information about LLMs is YouTube: https://preview.redd.it/4tv0ctbwyfsh1.png?width=2544&format=png&auto=webp&s=46d5e37a8f69372cbbb55d6d4ab22021e94ca285 Back in September 2024, Reflection 70B appeared out of nowhere and was announced as an open-source model that supposedly destroyed GPT-4o There was only one small problem. People downloaded it. And tested it :( https://preview.redd.it/kamhrp9izfsh1.png?width=1514&format=png&auto=webp&s=207d61b01898f579c8d9d2469e85dc710b5aa3a8 It turned out that Reflection 70B was basically a Llama 3.1 https://preview.redd.it/ghmof4l50gsh1.png?width=1524&format=png&auto=webp&s=049b9adf5ac30be6d01951da07c558dd21745613 but at the end the mystery was solved https://preview.redd.it/44eb3jw90gsh1.png?width=1530&format=png&auto=webp&s=c3f53eeba1dc0d126f848ed24e4b782ae8ceb003 Let this be a moment of reflection on the current hypes in LocalLLaMA. great summary by Maziyar PANAHI https://x.com/MaziyarPanahi/status/1838559480658710982 submitted by /u/jacek2023 [link] [comments]

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Source: r/LocalLLaMA | 2026-09-29