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How smart is the IQ3 family of Qwen 3.8 Flash Next for coding tasks?

I've been closely following the rise of the Strata inference engine and as someone with 28GB VRAM and 32GB RAM I'm itching to buy 32GB more RAM just to use Flash Next. But of course before I make such a financial commitment as a member of the GPU-poor class like myself, first I need to make sure th…

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  1. 2026-10-03 01:47 · r/LocalLLM
    Strata is seriously impressive, running Qwen 3.8 Flash Next on hermes at 512k context.
  2. 2026-10-01 05:27 · r/LocalLLaMA
    Qwen Flash Next MTP work restarted
  3. 2026-09-30 17:15 · r/LocalLLaMA
    How smart is the IQ3 family of Qwen 3.8 Flash Next for coding tasks?

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