How is it possible that qwen 27b is so good? When GPT 4o had a trillion parameters and was worse?

A Reddit post in r/amodei discusses the impressive performance of Qwen 27B, prompting questions about the underlying technologies. The user wonders if Qwen utilizes superior pre-training data or other innovations to achieve such high quality, especially when compared to models like GPT-4o, which reportedly has a trillion parameters but is perceived as performing worse.