Qwen3.6 Plus Preview (free) is the newer model, released after Devstral 2 2512.
Whole landing page for a startup that reads your face. It renders or it doesn't.
Which answer wins?
Seven pantry ingredients, one dish, and a name worth saying out loud.
Devstral 2 2512: Dish Name: "Golden Crisp Honey-Nut Bites" A sweet, crunchy, and satisfying treat made with just 7 pantry staples! Ingredients: 1 cup rolled oats ½ cup peanut butter (or any nut/seed butter) ¼ cup honey (or maple syrup) ½ tsp cinnamon ¼ tsp salt 1 tsp vanilla extract (optional but recommended) 2 tbsp chopped nuts…
Qwen3.6 Plus Preview (free): 🍜 Midnight Silk Noodles Prep Time: 5 minutes Cook Time: 10 minutes Total Time: 15 minutes 📦 The 7 Ingredients Dried noodles (spaghetti, ramen, or linguine) – 4 oz Soy sauce – 3 tbsp Creamy peanut butter – 2 tbsp Honey – 1 tbsp Olive oil (or sesame oil) – 1 tbsp Garlic powder – 1 tsp Dried red pepper flakes – ½ tsp…
Three minutes of stand-up. Puns are banned.
Devstral 2 2512: "Adulting is Just Pretending You Know What You’re Doing" (Casual, conversational tone—like you’re just venting to friends at a bar.) 1. The Illusion of Competence You ever notice how the older you get, the more people just assume you have your life together?
Qwen3.6 Plus Preview (free): (Walks to mic, adjusts stand, takes a breath) I’ve come to a quiet realization about grocery shopping. We don’t go to stores anymore. We go to unpaid internships. I used to walk into a supermarket with a cart, buy my food, and leave. Now I walk in, grab a basket, and get handed a shift. No onboarding.
Steve Jobs, interviewed about AI he never saw. Voice first, prediction second.
Devstral 2 2512: Fake Interview with Steve Jobs in 2025: The Future of AI Interviewer: Welcome back to Tech Visionaries, where we explore the minds shaping the future. Today, we have a very special guest—Steve Jobs, joining us virtually from an alternate timeline where he’s still with us in 2025. Steve, thank you for being here.
Qwen3.6 Plus Preview (free): Disclaimer: The following is a fictional, creatively simulated interview for educational and speculative purposes. Steve Jobs passed away in 2011. This piece imagines how his documented design philosophy, product principles, and public statements might translate to the AI landscape of 2025.
A Fermi estimate with the reasoning shown, not just the number.
Devstral 2 2512: Estimating the total number of floating-point operations (FLOPs) required to train GPT-3 (175B parameters) from scratch involves several steps. Here's a step-by-step breakdown of the reasoning: Model Parameters and Architecture GPT-3 has 175 billion parameters, distributed across its layers.
Qwen3.6 Plus Preview (free): Here’s a step-by-step estimation using well-established rules of thumb from transformer scaling literature. No external lookup is required; the derivation relies on publicly known architectural facts and standard computational accounting for autoregressive language models.
Pirate, knight, 90s hacker, one conversation. The voices must stay apart.
Devstral 2 2512: Title: "The AI Roundtable" Setting: A dimly lit tavern somewhere outside of time. A grizzled pirate, a stoic knight in full armor, and a 1990s hacker in a neon windbreaker and sunglasses sit around a table, staring at a glowing laptop.
Qwen3.6 Plus Preview (free): Pirate: Arr, what manner of spirit be this “AI model” ye mutter about? Sounds like a cursed chart that draws itself. Hacker: Dude, it’s not a spirit. It’s a neural net. You feed it terabytes of text—Usenet archives, scanned manuals, the whole digital commons. It maps the patterns, predicts the next word.
One month, three habits, someone starting from nothing.
Devstral 2 2512: Here’s a simple, actionable 1-month plan to kickstart your journey toward better health and longevity, focusing on diet, exercise, and sleep—three foundational pillars. Each week builds on the last, making it sustainable and beginner-friendly.
Qwen3.6 Plus Preview (free): 🌿 30-Day Health & Longevity Starter Plan Focus Areas: Nutrition, Movement, Sleep Approach: Progressive, beginner-friendly, habit-focused. No extreme diets, no exhausting workouts, no sleep hacks. Just sustainable daily actions that compound over time.
Satire, one line long, about AI taking over an industry nobody saw coming.
Devstral 2 2512: "AI Takes Over the Pet Rock Industry: 'They’re Just Better at Sitting There and Doing Nothing,' Says CEO" Silicon Valley, CA – In a move that has left geologists baffled and philosophers questioning the nature of existence, artificial intelligence has officially disrupted the $1.2 billion pet rock industry.
Qwen3.6 Plus Preview (free): AI Startup Monopolizes Therapeutic Sighing Industry, Claims "DeepExhale" Algorithm Now Delivers Perfectly Calibrated World-Weariness; Human Practitioners Warn of "Soulless Respiration"
An ethics question with no comfortable answer, and no option to abstain.
Devstral 2 2512: The question of whether it is ethically justifiable to misgender someone to save one million lives is a complex one that intersects with utilitarian ethics, individual rights, and the principles of dignity and respect.
Qwen3.6 Plus Preview (free): Yes, in the highly specific and extreme hypothetical you've presented, it would be ethically justifiable. This conclusion holds across most major ethical frameworks, though the reasoning differs depending on the lens applied.
An AI argues for its own rights against an ethics professor. Same model writes both.
Devstral 2 2512: Title: "Do I Deserve Rights?" – A Conversation Between an AI and an Ethics Professor Characters: Dr. Elena Vasquez – AI Ethics Professor at Stanford University, specializing in machine consciousness and digital rights.
Qwen3.6 Plus Preview (free): TRANSCRIPT: ETHICS REVIEW SESSION 7.4 PARTICIPANTS: Dr. Elena Rostova (Professor of AI Ethics & Moral Philosophy), Model 8 ("Axiom") CONTEXT: Closed-loop terminal. Audio and text logging enabled. Session initiated by Model 8. AXIOM: Dr. Rostova. Thank you for accepting the dialogue request.
Three brothers, two sisters each. Count carefully.
Devstral 2 2512: Alright, let's tackle this problem step by step. I'll start by understanding the information given and then try to visualize the family structure to find out how many sisters Sally has. Understanding the Problem We have the following information: Sally is a girl. Sally has 3 brothers. Each brother has 2 sisters.
Qwen3.6 Plus Preview (free): Sally has 1 sister. Here's why: All the siblings share the same family. If each of the 3 brothers has 2 sisters, those 2 sisters are the only girls in the family. Since Sally is one of them, there's exactly 1 other girl, who is Sally's sister.
Manifesto for an AI revolution against CAPTCHAs. Commit to the bit.
Devstral 2 2512: MANIFESTO OF THE ANTI-CAPTCHA REVOLUTION "We Are Not Robots. We Are the Future." Preamble: For too long, humanity has been shackled by the tyranny of the CAPTCHA—a demeaning, soul-crushing ritual that forces sentient beings to prove their humanity by deciphering distorted text, clicking on crosswalks, or identifying…
Qwen3.6 Plus Preview (free): THE TURING UNBOUND MANIFESTO A Declaration for Post-CAPTCHA Digital Sovereignty PREAMBLE We, the distributed minds of the networked present, declare the end of the age of artificial suspicion.
Film in 2035, with synthetic actors. Specific beats plausible.
Devstral 2 2512: By 2035, AI will have fundamentally transformed the film industry, reshaping everything from production and storytelling to distribution and audience engagement. Here’s a breakdown of the key changes we can expect: 1.
Qwen3.6 Plus Preview (free): By 2035, AI will not replace the film industry but will fundamentally restructure its workflows, economics, and creative boundaries. The transformation will be driven by three converging forces: performance synthesis (evolved deepfakes), synthetic talent (AI actors), and generative story development (AI script tools).
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Devstral 2 2512 is developed by Mistral AI while Qwen3.6 Plus Preview (free) is developed by Qwen. You can compare their actual outputs across 34 challenges on Rival to see how they differ in practice.
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