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Re:Qwen3.8-Max: A New Bar for Coding and Cowork by traceroute66 on Monday August 03, 2026 @04:19AM (#49152759)
> 35B MoE is certainly a good and fast local model. I find 27B dense to be quite a bit smarter

Isn't that just the definition of MoE vs dense ?

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Re:Qwen3.8-Max: A New Bar for Coding and Cowork by cyanydeez on Monday August 03, 2026 @10:05AM (#49155974)
Full name is 35B-A3B. 3B Is the token generator thats selected out of the 35b available in the model, which is some layered jazz.

So it can be dumber but its quite capablr.

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