alt Hacker NewsI test drove it yesterday. It's pretty impressive at 8b. Runs on commodity hardware quickly.
Qwen3.6 35b a3b is still my local champion but I may use this for auto complete and small tasks. Granite has recent training data which is nice. If the other small models got fine tuned on recent data I don't know if I would use this at all, but that alone makes it pretty decent.
The 4b they released was not good for my needs but could probably handle tool calls or something
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cyanydeez • today at 12:34 PM
Qwen3-Coder-Next seems to be perfect sized for coding. I tried the new and just found the verbosity not really useful for coding. But probably for more analytical tasks or writing docs.
steveharing1 • today at 10:57 AM
Yea, No doubt Qwen 3.6 open weights are far more strong
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Have you tried the Gemma 4 series, out of curiosity? I haven’t run a local model in a while, but the benchmarks look good. I’d take a free local tool-use model if it was relatively consistent.