State of local inference for Qwen3.8-27B and Flash-Next (Oct 2026): engine architectures + every number I could find, verified vs. claimed
I spent a while mapping the engines that run Qwen3.8-27B and Qwen3.8-Flash-Next on consumer hardware. Sharing the summary because the ecosystem has exploded (NInfer alone has ~600 forks) and most numbers floating around are not comparable. Disclosure: I'm the author of capy-flash (formerly ninfer-t…
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