By Evan Vega
A viral post’s Karpathy quote is mostly his words from the No Priors podcast (Sept 2024); the “90%” and the comparison with today’s models are not. webAI’s TwIL-8B, held up as proof, reports 93/92/90 percent of frontier on its own card, carries a non-commercial licence, and in Novel Cognition’s Mac Studio spot check passed 164 of 168 checks but took twice as long per answer as DeepSeek V4 Flash.
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