Qwen Next 3.8 / Claude Opus level local model - What to buy in order to deploy?

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Hey Reddit. This is a post asking for advice / user experience. The goal is simple: deploy a small private server for a developer to run a harness that rivals/beats Claude Opus (in perf/intelligence, not necessarily speed). I believe the model to target is a Q3 or so version of the Qwen 3.8 Next mo…