> It probably could only happen in China, not in current USA or EU (for different reasons)
Per Artificial Analysis benchmarks, Meta's Muse Glimmer 30b (open weight) holds its own (for agentic code workloads) against models 5x to 10x its size, too.
and Muse Glimmer uses a lot fewer tokens than Qwen 3.8. I found it more usable on my hardware because I can get an answer quicker.
Glimmer benchmarks around Qwen 3.6 27B levels no?