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Comment by dofm

It will run (somewhat slowly) on a five year old M1 Max with 64GB RAM.

Personally I prefer the 35B MoE model, which is fast enough to be interactively useful, and capable, but I would probably use the 27B if I wanted to generate whole applications like that.

I am unconvinced that most "local" AI applications need anything much more powerful than the Gemma 4 12B model. Local agentic coding is a small niche, but there are plenty of ways a local model can help with development tasks.

I would really like to see a 12B or 16B Qwen 3.6.

I am currently playing with Ornith 1.0 in the MoE configuration, which is based on the 35B variant of Qwen 3.5; I am not sure if it is better than the 3.6 version.

Benchmarks say it is; my own silly tests either suggest otherwise or suggest that I have to talk to it a bit differently.

parent dofm 4 months ago

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