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(Ozgun from Ubicloud)

I agree with the blog post's technical contents, but I feel we came across too strong in the title. For Ubicloud as a managed Postgres provider, we use strict memory overcommit. Our experience with operating Postgres at scale taught us that it's better to enable this than going with the defaults.

However, I can see many other scenarios, where using strict memory overcommit would have unanticipated side-effects. That's why Linux doesn't go with strict memory commit as its default.

Ack. I took the benchmark results that AI Labs themselves published for their models. So the Opus 4.6 baseline would be from the time that Anthropic released the model.

I reviewed how DeepSeek V4-Pro, Kimi 2.6, Opus 4.6, and Opus 4.7 across the same AI benchmarks. All results are for Max editions, except for Kimi.

Summary: Opus 4.6 forms the baseline all three are trying to beat. DeepSeek V4-Pro roughly matches it across the board, Kimi K2.6 edges it on agentic/coding benchmarks, and Opus 4.7 surpasses it on nearly everything except web search.

DeepSeek V4-Pro Max shines in competitive coding benchmarks. However, it trails both Opus models on software engineering. Kimi K2.6 is remarkably competitive as an open-weight model. Its main weakness is in pure reasoning (GPQA, HMMT) where it trails Opus.

Speculation: The DeepSeek team wanted to come out with a model that surpassed proprietary ones. However, OpenAI dropped 5.4 and 5.5 and Anthropic released Opus 4.6 and 4.7. So they chose to just release V4 and iterate on it.

Basis for speculation? (i) The original reported timeline for the model was February. (ii) Their Hugging Face model card starts with "We present a preview version of DeepSeek-V4 series". (iii) V4 isn't multimodal yet (unlike the others) and their technical report states "We are also working on incorporating multimodal capabilities to our models."

This update makes Kimi K2.6 the strongest open multimodal AI model. (No affiliation with Kimi.)

Here's the aggregated AI benchmark comparison for K2.6 vs Opus 4.6 (max effort).

- Agentic: Kimi wins 5. Opus wins 5.

- Coding: Kimi wins 5. Opus wins 1.

- Reasoning & knowledge: Kimi wins 1. Opus wins 4.

- Vision: Kimi wins 9. Opus wins 0.

Please note that the model publisher chooses their benchmarks, so there's a bias here. Most coding and reasoning & knowledge benchmarks in their list are pretty standard though.

I'll save everyone a web search. This is satire and there isn't any such German federal court ruling.

It also speaks to the world that we live in these days - I'm having a hard time separating satire from reality.