OpenAI released GPT-4o in May 2024, and Anthropic released Claude 3.5 Sonnet in June 2024.

I haven't tried the local models as much but I'd find it difficult to believe that they would outperform the 2024 models from OpenAI or Anthropic.

The only major algorithmic shift was done towards the RLVR and I believe it was already being applied during the 2023-2024.