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Qwen 3.8 27B and Deepseek V4 Flash. Why are we building data centers?

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I feel like these 2 models have shown that massive models that require hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of compute are unnecessary. Sure, training these models takes a good bit of hardware, but running them can be done at the fraction of the investment of the trillion parameter class models.…

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  1. 2026-08-19 18:49 · r/LocalLLM
    Qwen 3.8 27B and Deepseek V4 Flash. Why are we building data centers?

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