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Created August 24, it holds a trendingScore of 3,967 against second-place GLM-5.3-Flash at 1,376 (Hugging Face). The near-1:1 like-to-download ratio means almost everyone bookmarking it hasn't pulled weights, and the unsloth GGUF conversion at 4,354 downloads is absorbing comparable volume to the original. It's a 125B/6B-active multimodal MoE explicitly framed as a preview of the Qwen4 architecture; Simon Willison ran a 72.5GB UD-IQ1_S and a 78.9GB UD-Q2_K_XL on a DGX Spark and got his best result from the latter at xhigh reasoning effort (simonwillison.net).
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Alibaba released Qwen3.6-27B on April 22. Dense architecture. Open weights. 77.2% on SWE-bench Verified, within 3.7 points of Claude Opus 4.6. On SkillsBench, it scores 48.2% versus its own 397B MoE predecessor's 30.0%. That's a 77% improvement with 14.8x fewer parameters. Let...
Hugging Face published its Summer 2026 State of Open Models report on August 14, and one statistic in it went almost entirely unremarked in the coverage. By July 2026, agents rather than humans became the Hub's primary users. Claude Code alone accounted for 44.4% of all agent...
Staged on ModelScope for 23:00 Beijing time August 26, it's roughly 125B parameters plus a separate N-gram embedding table of about 51B, activating 6B per token, with GDN gated-delta hybrid layers and Qwen Sparse Attention. Alibaba frames it as a technology preview of the Qwen...
For about a year, "run your agent locally" meant accepting a model that couldn't reliably call a tool twice in a row. That excuse is gone. Meta Superintelligence Labs published Muse Glimmer today: a 29.6B dense causal transformer, 52 layers, 6,656 hidden dim, with a ~1.8B ViT-...
DeepSeek released V4 Preview on April 24 with two open-weight variants: V4-Pro (1.6T total parameters, 49B activated via MoE) and V4-Flash (284B parameters, 13B activated). Both support 1M-token context windows. Both are Apache 2.0 licensed. Both are live right now on Hugging...
The open-weight race just changed constraint. Moonshot AI suspended all new consumer subscriptions on July 20, roughly 48 hours after Kimi K3 launched, because request volume pushed its compute cluster to capacity. Remaining GPUs are reserved for existing paid subscribers. Tec...
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