Qwen 3.5 small models out

[rurban]

I've tried Qwen3.5-35B-A3B locally on our H100's, and it was horrible. Much more halluzinations than anything else. The big qwen coder would take 4 GPU's which is a bit too much. Trying GPT-oss-120b tomorrow.

For now we are happy with GitHub CoPilot for open source for free with Opus 4.6. That's by far the best for opencode. For images qwen rules.

[beAroundHere]

After GLM and Z.ai releasing huge models. Thanks to Qwen team, we have models which could be run on low end devices.

Especially that Qwen3.5-35B-A3 looks great for cheaper GPUs. Since a quant version of it would need a <32 GB RAM.

[ColonelPhantom]

It's not just Qwen; we also recently had GLM-4.7-Flash in the same roughly 30B-A3 range. Seems to me like there's no shortage of competition for good old GPT-OSS 20B (not just Qwen3.5-35B and GLM-4.7-Flash, but also Qwen3(-Coder)-30B or Granite 4 Small).