Based on the benchmarks, it seems that Muse Glimmer barely edges out against Qwen3.6 27B, except for tool-calling skills (MCP, etc.). I wouldn't be surprised if they released it now because they are afraid they wouldn't beat Qwen3.8 27B.

Yes, and also waiting for the next iteration of Gemma. Muse or Qwen are optimized for coding, while IMO Gemma is still better for non-coding tasks.

https://x.com/osanseviero/status/2086107547535122767

Makes me feel hopeful. Things felt more positive around the llama 3 era. Now it’s like a dark, dreadful race.

It’s really interesting timing, Qwen over thinking is what kills it for me. I’m just glad we have more options in this size class now.

yes i think everyone is waiting to see that ;d, i've been on qwen for the last year and a half now.

> Seems like dense 30B is back in fashion?

Surprising that Meta don't host this model, even as rate-limited free-tier.

> open weight version of Muse Spark 1.2

Wait. Is this "version" different from what Meta serves?

It seems worse than 3.6, but a bit smaller.

UPD. was wrong on smaller, it's actually much larger