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points by simonw 4 days ago | 0 comments

Apparently Qwen 4 might land this week, and it uses the same architecture as 3.8-Flash-Next (so various LLM serving tools should be able to handle it already). I'm hoping Qwen 4 includes some smaller models - the last 4B and 9B from Qwen were for 3.5.

[–] boomskats 4 days ago

I remember seeing somewhere credible that it was going to be Thursday this week (tomorrow?), but don't remember where.

Assume you've seen the Apsara conf announcement / the planned 'tiers'[0]. Do you have a planned use case for a 4b / 9b? Hopefully the overthinking will get better on the smaller models.

[0]: https://www.yottalabs.ai/post/qwen-4-max-vs-plus-vs-flash-vs...

[–] ch_sm 3 days ago

I’m really wishing for a 35b-a3b version. It’s just such a great speed-capability trade off.

[–] fastball 4 days ago

If they actually release the weights.

[–] sigmoid10 4 days ago

The head of Qwen just confirmed that 4 and 5 will remain open.

[–] NewJazz 3 days ago

Open or "community license"

[–] tancop 3 days ago

Doesn't matter for local use anyway.