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Honey, i shrunk Qwen3. 8-Flash-Next

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Apologies for the brief and AI-sloppy write-up, but I'm on my phone and just trying to get this out in case someone finds this useful. This is a follow-up to my qwen 3.6 prune. I wanted to see if the same thing worked well here. It doesn't, but there are other levers to pull. I noticed Qwen3.8-Flas…

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  1. 2026-08-31 17:16 · r/LocalLLM
    Qwen3.8-Flash-Next beat every Claude model on my API bug-fixing bench, locally on an RTX 3060
  2. 2026-08-31 01:09 · r/LocalLLaMA
    Qwen3.8-Flash-Next-NVFP4 vs Qwen3.8-27B-FP Test Results
  3. 2026-08-30 11:32 · r/LocalLLM
    Qwen3.8-Flash-Next on single RTX PRO 6000 96GB + 64g RAM, full 262K context with NVMe offloading recipe
  4. 2026-08-30 00:09 · r/LocalLLM
    I hit 310 t/s running Qwen/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next-FP8 on 4x RTX PRO 6000
  5. 2026-08-29 13:32 · r/LocalLLM
    Honey, i shrunk Qwen3. 8-Flash-Next

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