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… In one test, with 90,000 tokens of context and zero contamination, the local model gave the better answer. This isn't local models beating the cloud, because they don't overall . It's messier than that, but Qwen gives it some fantastic competition. …
… Related I tested Qwen3 Coder Next against four other local AI coding models, and the gap was embarrassing Qwen3 Coder Next is one of the best local models out there, and it's not even that close. …
… One of my tests, though, proved just how incredible local models have become. 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. …
… I suspect that most will bring their own cloud-based subscription, but I was especially curious how a local LLM would handle it instead. 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. …