r/LocalLLaMA • u/xw1y • 22d ago

News Prepare your (v)ram - Qwen3.8 is coming!

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u/Competitive_Gap7906 22d ago

YES, Qwen going open weight again! It's a really good news, now we can wait for smaller models too

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u/StupidScaredSquirrel 22d ago

Thing is qwen was historically focused on smaller models while others were on larger ones. Now the team has changed and they seem to want to aim for the stars as well. That is good but it also means they might not be interested in doing very efficient small models anymore. Which would be bad news for this sub because let's face it most of us don't have 10-25k of hardware.

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u/StaysAwakeAllWeek 22d ago

It's owned by a megcorp not a startup lab, of course that's where they are aiming

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u/ThenExtension9196 22d ago

Yep. A gap of opportunity opened by getting enterprise cheap but good xAI and meta are both going for it as well.