Tinfield 1 is an open weight coding model from Nigeria that beats Opus 4.8
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Normally, I'd give them a pass because at least it's open source, but then I read
> Raising pre-seed. So we welcome all angels and vcs
Which basically gives away that they're trying to fool investors into giving them money by exaggerating their results.
This is not their first release. BTL-2 (or -3 maybe? I forget) looked kind of interesting but it was annoying to run, needed a patch on llama.cpp, looks like they're improving their tooling.
I'm certainly interested in how this actually performs.