Wariz Akorede
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Wariz Akorede
@CybWiz
Cybersecurity Analyst | Penetration tester | Product Manager
Lagos, Nigeria Beigetreten Nisan 2022
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Hiring online shouldn’t feel like gambling 🤷
Start hiring with confidence today:
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The AI labs want you to think you need a paid subscription to access world-class intelligence. You don’t!
Here are 7 free AI models competing with Claude and ChatGPT right now:
The open-source AI space exploded in 2025 and 2026, and right now there are free models matching frontier performance on coding, reasoning, and agentic tasks, with some even beating the paid ones on key benchmarks.
1.DeepSeek V3.2: the model that shocked the world in early 2025 is now even better, matching GPT-5-level reasoning on benchmarks like AIME and HMMT 2025, with a sparse attention mechanism that keeps inference costs low. Free to use at chat.deepseek.com
2.Llama 3.3 70B (Meta): Meta’s open-weight flagship that fits on a single A100 GPU and outperforms GPT-3.5 on almost every benchmark, with the 405B variant going head-to-head with GPT-4o. Free via Groq, Ollama, or Meta AI on WhatsApp and Instagram. llama.meta.com
3.Qwen 3.5 (Alibaba): 235B parameters with only 22B active at inference, a 262K token context window, and support for over 200 languages including several African languages. Benchmarks put it in frontier territory on reasoning and coding. huggingface.co/Qwen
4.GLM-5 (Zhiyu AI): currently ranked #1 on open-source LLM benchmarks with a 95.8% score on SWE-bench Verified for coding, the lowest hallucination rate of any open model tested, and near-zero on the AA-Omniscience Index. Free to download. huggingface.co/THUDM
5.Kimi K2.5 (Moonshot AI): natively multimodal, trained on 15 trillion mixed visual and text tokens, and capable of spinning up to 100 sub-agents in parallel for agentic workflows, scoring 96% on AIME 2025. kimi.ai
6.Gemma 3 12B (Google): Google’s open-weight model optimised for local deployment, strong for general reasoning and instruction following, and the go-to choice when you need a capable model running entirely on your own hardware. Free via Ollama or HuggingFace. ai.google.dev/gemma
7.Mistral Large 2: European-built, strong on coding and multilingual tasks, fully open weights, and OpenAI API-compatible so you can swap it in with zero code changes in most pipelines. mistral.ai
The gap between open-source and proprietary models is now single-digit benchmark points for most practical tasks. The real difference today is not capability, it is cost, privacy, and who controls your data.
Save this. Share it with a developer or researcher who is still paying for every AI token they use.
Which of these have you tested? Drop your experience below 👇
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Google Cybersecurity Scholarship Alert.
Here’s the link to apply: itexperience.org
The application is on from now to March, 26. Don’t miss out.
Apply Now
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SafeNet ❌ HackTheBox
Tell a nerd to tell another nerd,
we’re about to HackTheBox.
📅 Date: 7th March 2026
⏰ Time: 11am – 2pm
📍 LPI HUB {LPI Innovation Hub University Ibadan}
RSVP is important as spots are limited.
tinyurl.com/htb-ib
See you soon, nerds.🫂

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Jumu‘ah Reflection | Provision Comes from Allah
In this verse, Prophet ʿIsa (AS) reminds us that true provision is from Allah alone - not just food, but signs, unity, gratitude, and faith.
When we ask, let our hearts be sincere. When we receive, let us be grateful. And when we are tested, let us remember that Allah is the Best of Providers.
May this Jumu‘ah renew our trust in Allah (S.W.T) and strengthen our reliance on Him. Aameen.
#JumuahReflection #QuranReminder #AlMaidah #TrustInAllah #MCANRivers #Reminder

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DAY 6 OF THE 100 DAYS CYBERSECURITY CHALLENGE:
youtu.be/L-t3hL1bxck
Let me know what you learned today in the comments.

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A lot of corporate 'AI policies' right now are a joke if I'm being honest, and not a funny one either.
It is understandable that AI is not that old in the market and it's growing relatively fast, but that is no excuse for mediocrity.
If your entire policy is:
'Do not paste sensitive data into AI tools.'
Then you don’t have a policy.
You have a sticky note taped to a door.
A real AI security policy defines:
Acceptable use
Training data rules
Vendor risk obligations
Regulatory requirements
Model safety constraints
Logging & auditability
Human overrides
Incident response paths
Compliance will have to evolve from 'does this tool meet requirements?' to 'does this decision engine comply under scrutiny?

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@VictorAkinode Happy birthday to you VA
Thank you for all you sir🙏
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