Friday’s big release was Qwen 3.8 27B, an Apache 2 licensed 27B parameter vision-capable LLM from Alibaba’s Qwen research lab. I’ve been looking forward to this one: 27B is an …
You can run it on smaller hardware too, people managed to get 3.6 to run with 16 gb ram with stuff like quants and MTP. But the fact that you can run a model that performs as well as a frontier model from half a year ago on any laptop is frankly mind blowing.
TIL a $7000 laptop is “reasonably specced”
You can run it on smaller hardware too, people managed to get 3.6 to run with 16 gb ram with stuff like quants and MTP. But the fact that you can run a model that performs as well as a frontier model from half a year ago on any laptop is frankly mind blowing.