Author here. The core claim: RWKV-7 (2.9B params, RNN) scores 72.8% avg across standard benchmarks vs LLaMA 3.2's 69.7% — trained on 3.1T tokens vs ~9T. Same parameter count, one-third the data.

The more interesting result is architectural: RWKV-7 formally exceeds TC⁰, the complexity class bounding standard Transformers (Merrill & Sabharwal's proof in the paper). It solves state-tracking problems that fixed-depth attention provably cannot.

Inference runs in O(1) memory per token — no KV cache. The hybrid variant (RWKV-X) hits 99.8% passkey retrieval at 64K and 1.37x Flash Attention v3 throughput at 128K.

Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.14456 (COLM 2025, peer-reviewed)

Weights: https://huggingface.co/collections/RWKV/rwkv-v7-67d43835efa2...

Code: https://github.com/BlinkDL/RWKV-LM (Apache 2.0)

Happy to discuss the delta rule generalization, the TC⁰ proof, or the benchmark methodology — I spent 36 sources digging into the caveats.