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Qwen3.6-35B-A3B: Agentic coding power, now open to all

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Re: Qwen3.6-35B-A3B: Agentic coding power, now open to all

#41

More benchmaxxing I see. Too bad there’s no rig with 256gb unified ram for under $1000

do you know if they did this to it? https://research.google/blog/turboquant-redefining-ai-effici...

Llama.cpp already uses an idea from it internally for the KV cache [0]

So a quantized KV cache now must see less degradation

[0] https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/pull/21038

Re: Qwen3.6-35B-A3B: Agentic coding power, now open to all

#44
post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's a MoE model and the A3B stands for 3 Billion active parameters, like the recent Gemma 4. You can try to offload the experts on CPU with llama.cpp (--cpu-moe) and that should give you quite the extra context space, at a lower token generation speed.

Mac has unified memory, so 36GB is 36GB for everything- gpu,cpu.

For sure I was running on autopilot with that reply. Though in Q4 I would expect it to fit, as 24B-A4B Gemma model without CPU offloading got up to 18GB of VRAM usage

Re: Qwen3.6-35B-A3B: Agentic coding power, now open to all

#45
post #23

Does anyone have any experience with Qwen or any non-Western LLMs? It's hard to get a feel out there with all the doomerists and grifters shouting. Only thing I need is reasonable promise that my data won't be used for training or at least some of it won't. Being able to export conversations in bulk would be helpful.

The Chinese models are generally pretty good. > Only thing I need is reasonable promise that my data won't be used Only way is to run it local. I personally don’t worry about this too much. Things like medical questions I tend to do against local models though

You can also rent a cloud GPU which is relatively affordable.
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