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How to use Q8 ngram with lower quant Qwen 3.8 Flash Next in Strata and avoid errors

Supposedly, you can increase output quality/"intelligence" of Qwen Flash Next quants somewhat (using Strata) without increase in VRAM, system memory usage or sacrificing prefill/decode speed (when using ple-io=direct) by side-loading a higher quality ngram, in this case Q8 . You do this with the fo…

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Timeline · 5 reports

  1. 2026-10-29 07:06 · r/LocalLLaMA
    Qwen 3.8 Flash Next Creative Writing Ability
  2. 2026-10-28 16:57 · r/ArtificialInteligence
    Qwen Flash Next writing a SciFi story...
  3. 2026-10-28 13:41 · r/LocalLLaMA
    Used Qwen 3.8 flash next on underspeced PC to Root and gut LG TV of spy and adware
  4. 2026-10-27 10:19 · r/LocalLLaMA
    Debunking Cohere's claim of Qwen 3.8 Flash Next uploading to Alibaba remote URL
  5. 2026-10-27 06:54 · r/LocalLLaMA
    How to use Q8 ngram with lower quant Qwen 3.8 Flash Next in Strata and avoid errors

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