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Qwen3 is an AI model family developed by Alibaba, released as a set of large language models for natural-language tasks.
… Llama 8B has the edge on code-heavy benchmarks, though Qwen 7B pulls ahead once math and general reasoning come into it, so grabbing whichever one happens to say "DeepSeek" doesn't tell you much by itself. …
… There are reasons to believe the hype when it comes to the Qwen models; I've had consistently good experiences with Qwen 3.6 27B , and Qwen 3.8 27B is, so far, more of the same but better. …
… For "explain why ," Qwen's answer was just... better. Where Qwen struggled It's not perfect While you may come out of this thinking Qwen 3.6 27B might actually be the stronger model, it wasn't a clean victory. …
… Qwen 3.5's thinking mode is inherited and refined from Qwen 3, so it's more battle-tested. And the 9B actually beats the previous-gen Qwen3-30B on reasoning benchmarks, which is a model more than three times its size. …
… Related I ran Gemma 4 and Qwen 3.5 for the same local tasks, and one pulled miles ahead Pitting them against each other to find the best one for my workflow The one I'd actually keep My final pick would be Qwen. …
… Armed with Qwen 3.6 27B Q4 K M with multi-token prediction on a Radeon RX 7900 XTX and deployed with llama.cpp, I was ready to go. …