I 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
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