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OK, fine, Qwen 3.8 Flash Next is nice

I held off as long as I could, but finally gave in and set up strata. I am pretty blown away. 3.8 27b at Q6 kv8 was my driver before and that works super well, but Flash Next in strata IQ4 xs is really winning me over. Its not perfect, but it feels like models I was using professionally last year,…

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  1. 2026-10-23 16:16 · r/LocalLLaMA
    agentionai/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next-Gyro-Coder-GGUF · Hugging Face
  2. 2026-10-23 15:41 · r/LocalLLaMA
    Qwen 3.8 Flash Next Gyro Coder is out!
  3. 2026-10-23 03:56 · r/LocalLLaMA
    Deepseek V4.1-1017 - doing okay on RDNA2/3 + DDR4
  4. 2026-10-22 23:47 · r/LocalLLaMA
    Qwen 3.8 Flash Next (129 GB) is better than 2.6 bpw DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 (187 GB + 203 GB Engram)
  5. 2026-10-22 15:27 · r/LocalLLM
    Qwen 3.8 Flash Next (Q4) got stuck on this loop for hours. I wonder if this is the AI equivalent of having a nightmare and not being able to wake up
  6. 2026-10-22 03:44 · r/LocalLLaMA
    What's your favorite medium to large (~50-150b params) MOE model? Aside from Qwen flash next.
  7. 2026-10-22 03:18 · r/LocalLLaMA
    I have an answer! Qwen Flash Next IQ2 IS better than Q8 of 27B (for me).
  8. 2026-10-22 01:54 · r/LocalLLM
    Qwen 3.8 Flash Next GSQ-RCO IQ_3S at 70tok/s decode/1900tok/s prefill on 2013 Xeon E5-1680v2, 128GB quad channel DDR3-1866 ECC, and an EVGA 3090 FTW3
  9. 2026-10-21 15:53 · r/LocalLLaMA
    OK, fine, Qwen 3.8 Flash Next is nice

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