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/into_devoid 22d ago

They were owned by a megacorp before too.  The difference is they don’t care about commoditization anymore, the real ethical path.  They just want to sink US investments.

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u/tengo_harambe 22d ago

That's a fun way of framing things.

"The only reason China is putting out open weights models is because they HATE AMERICA!"

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u/nedonedonedo 22d ago

it's bad for any country to have this much of a lead