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I can (barely, but sustainably) run Q3.5 397B on my Mac Studio with 256GB unified. It cost $10,000 but that's well within reach for most people who are here, I expect.
I'm running it on my Intel Xeon W5 with 256GB of DDR5 and Nvidia 72GB VRAM. Paid $7-8k for this system. Probably cost twice as much now. Using UD-IQ4_NL quants. Getting 13 t/s. Using it with thinking disabled.
I've been running this on my laptop with the Unsloth 20.9GB GGUF in LM Studio: https://huggingface.co/unsloth/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-GGUF/blob/mai... It drew a better pelican riding a bicycle than Opus 4.7 did! https://simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/16/qwen-beats-opus/
The flamingo on Qwen's unicycle is sitting on the tire, not the seat. That wins because of sunglasses?
Stylized gradients on the flamingo
Flowers
Ground/grass has a stylized look and feel
...despite a miss along the Y-axis where it's below the seat, couple oddly organized tail feathers, spokes, the composition overall is much closer to a production quality entity
Opus 4.7 looks like 20 seconds in MS paint.
Qwen3.6 looks incomplete due to the sitting position, but like a WIP I could see on a designer coworkers screen if I walk up and interrupt them. Click and drag it up, adjust tail feathers and spokes, you're there or much closer, to a usable output
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Some tasks don’t require SOTA models. For translating small texts I use Gemma 4 on my iPhone because it’s faster and better than Apple Translate or Google Translate and works offline. Also if you can break down certain tasks like JSON healing into small focused coding tasks then local models are useful
Is it really better? In which languages?
I've been running this on my laptop with the Unsloth 20.9GB GGUF in LM Studio: https://huggingface.co/unsloth/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-GGUF/blob/mai... It drew a better pelican riding a bicycle than Opus 4.7 did! https://simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/16/qwen-beats-opus/
Here's a reproduction attempt (LM Studio, same Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-GGUF model as linked in parent, M1 Max 64GB, https://files.catbox.moe/r3oru2.png - My Qwen 3.6 result had sun and cloud in sky, similar to the second Opus 4.7 result in Simon's post. - My Qwen 3.6 result had no grass (except as a green line), but all three results in Simon's post had grass (thick). - My Qwen 3.6 result had visible "tailing air motion" lik…
I can't comment that flamingo.
I've been running this on my laptop with the Unsloth 20.9GB GGUF in LM Studio: https://huggingface.co/unsloth/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-GGUF/blob/mai... It drew a better pelican riding a bicycle than Opus 4.7 did! https://simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/16/qwen-beats-opus/
the more I look at these images the more convinced I become that world models are the major missing piece and that these really are ultimately just stochastic sentence machines. Maybe Chomsky was right
I thought that's exactly what they are?
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This is older, but even humans don't have a great concept of how a bicycle works... https://twistedsifter.com/2016/04/artist-asks-people-to-draw...
Wouldn't this be more about being capable of mentally remembering how a bicycle looks versus how it works? This reminds me of Pictionary. [0] Some people are good and some are really bad. I am really bad a remembering how items look in my head and fail at drawing in Pictionary. My drawing skills are tied to being able to copy what I see. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pictionary
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the more I look at these images the more convinced I become that world models are the major missing piece and that these really are ultimately just stochastic sentence machines. Maybe Chomsky was right
> that these really are ultimately just stochastic sentence machines I thought that's exactly what they are?
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I can (barely, but sustainably) run Q3.5 397B on my Mac Studio with 256GB unified. It cost $10,000 but that's well within reach for most people who are here, I expect.
In where I am living, 10k USD is a little more than 3 years worth of rent, for a relatively new and convenient 2 bedroom apartment.
Either you're in Africa, southeast Asia or south/central Amarica.
How do you even afford internet?
I've been running this on my laptop with the Unsloth 20.9GB GGUF in LM Studio: https://huggingface.co/unsloth/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-GGUF/blob/mai... It drew a better pelican riding a bicycle than Opus 4.7 did! https://simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/16/qwen-beats-opus/
It's fascinating that a $999 Mac Mini (M4 32GB) with almost similar wattage as a human brain gets us this far.
(Please don't downvote - serious question) Are Chinese models generally accepted for use within US companies? The company I work for won't allow Qwen.
In private sector yes. Anything that touches public sector (government) and it starts to be supply chain concerns and they want all american made models