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[–] 1 point 5 days ago (4 children)

Benchmarks like SWE-Bench Pro are pretty close to Qwen 3.8 27B. I suppose this model is about what a Qwen 3.8 35b-a3b model would be. Alibaba appears to have moved onto Qwen 4 and haven’t announced any 35b-a3b models, so I’m glad this exists.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (3 children)

    I don't really understand your comment? Qwen3.8 27b is qwen4 architecture as a pre-release. apparently i was wrong here, it's still on the 3.5 architecture.

    A 27b dense model is really difficult to compare to a 35b a3b Moe model. I tried to run qwen3.8 27b on my 8gb card and ok it runs technically, but in no way is it viable or does it come close to ornith 1.5 35b a3b, mostly because to run qwen3.8 27b, I have to choke it to almost useless levels by running an aggressive quant like a 1, 2, or 3 bit quant, and even then it doesn't run as fast.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 days ago (2 children)

    FYI: Qwen3.8 27B is still a Qwen3.5 architecture model (Qwen3_5ForConditionalGeneration in config.json); Qwen3.8-Flash-Next -- a different model, despite the similar name -- is the Qwen4 preview (Qwen4ExpForConditionalGeneration).

    I believe what they're saying is that since we didn't get a MoE around the 35B-A3B size for the Qwen3.8 generation of releases that this model might be able to fill that niche -- i.e. a better model than Qwen3.6 35B-A3B while still being less compute intensive to run than Qwen3.8 27B.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 days ago

    Yeah, exactly, and sorry to everyone if I was unclear. I’m not holding out hope for a Qwen 4 35b-a3b either, so it’s good to see a model that comes close to 3.8 27b in benchmarks and I hope they stay competitive with Qwen 4 27b as well.

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