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Groot-65B-A6B looks interesting. Can someone with enough RAM test the Q4 and tell us if it's the real deal?

I've been looking into Groot-65B-A6B-261023 , and I'm curious if anyone here has actually tested it yet. It's a post-trained Qwen3.8-Flash-Next model with 65B total parameters, ~6B active, 256 experts per layer, vision support, MTP, and 256K context. The benchmark numbers look surprisingly good: 51…

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  1. 2026-11-02 13:36 · r/LocalLLM
    Groot-65B-A6B looks interesting. Can someone with enough RAM test the Q4 and tell us if it's the real deal?

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