> I'm not saying it's not,

Their GitHub repo and HuggingFace pages directly state that it's based on Qwen3.8 Flash Next. Their inference engine is called edge0-strata because it's a strata fork.

They fine tuned it and tweaked the architecture.

The real question is if the model performs better on general purpose tasks, or if it was just fine tuned to increase the benchmark scores.

Fair enough. I was just responding to the "just a quantized version of 3.8 next flash" claim. Benchmaxxing via fine-tuning is a very plausible possibility.