SOMEONE SHRANK A FRONTIER CODING MODEL DOWN TO 3 BILLION PARAMETERS AND IT'S STILL HANGING WITH OPUS 4.5

for context opus is a frontier model running in a datacenter. this thing is small enough to live on a single gpu.
> 3b params benchmarking near claude opus 4.5 on coding
> small enough to run local, no datacenter, no api bill
> the gap between "tiny open model" and "frontier" used to be a canyon
> now it's a rounding error on a coding eval
for two years the bet was that the best code model lives behind someone else's api. the new bet is it lives on your machine. we automated the coding, now we're shrinking the thing that does it until it fits in your pocket.