Karpathy Thinks 1B Will Be Enough. TwIL-8B, Held Up as Proof, Checked on a Mac Studio

Karpathy Thinks 1B Will Be Enough. TwIL-8B, Held Up as Proof, Checked on a Mac Studio

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Publish Date:
9 November, 2026
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Fox News
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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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