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Cover illustration for Raspberry Pi 5 Cluster Runs Qwen3-30B at 15 Tokens a Second
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Raspberry Pi 5 Cluster Runs Qwen3-30B at 15 Tokens a Second

Four 16GB Raspberry Pi 5 boards ran Qwen3-30B-A3B at 15.1 tokens per second on CPU alone, a 16% gain over the prior record with distributed-llama.

Alex Circuit
Alex Circuit★Oct 7, 2026★3 min read
Cover illustration for Strands Decider 2B: What Amazon's Free Decision Model Does
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Strands Decider 2B: What Amazon's Free Decision Model Does

Strands Decider 2B is a free 2B-parameter decision model that picks options in about 115ms on a single GPU. Here is how it works and where it fits.

Dr. Nova Chen
Dr. Nova Chen★Oct 3, 2026★4 min read
Cover illustration for AstaBrief 8B: Ai2's Open Model for Cited Science Reports
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AstaBrief 8B: Ai2's Open Model for Cited Science Reports

AstaBrief 8B is Ai2's Apache 2.0 open model that writes cited research reports in 51 seconds, 3.5x faster than its Claude pipeline. Here is how it works.

Dr. Nova Chen
Dr. Nova Chen★Oct 2, 2026★3 min read
Cover illustration for Ternary Bonsai 2 27B: A 5.9GB Model for 16GB Laptops
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Ternary Bonsai 2 27B: A 5.9GB Model for 16GB Laptops

Ternary Bonsai 2 27B squeezes Qwen3.8-27B into 5.9GB with 1.76-bit weights and keeps 98.2% of its benchmark score. Here's how to run it locally.

Dr. Nova Chen
Dr. Nova Chen★Sep 23, 2026★4 min read
Cover illustration for Qwen3.8-Max-0902 Takes Top Spot in Code Arena WebDev
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Qwen3.8-Max-0902 Takes Top Spot in Code Arena WebDev

Alibaba's Qwen3.8-Max-0902 debuts at 1,691 points on Code Arena WebDev and more than doubles its TerminalBench score, at unchanged $2/$6 pricing.

Dr. Nova Chen
Dr. Nova Chen★Sep 6, 2026★5 min read
Cover illustration for Qwen3.8-Flash-Next Fits in 75GB With No GPU Needed
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Qwen3.8-Flash-Next Fits in 75GB With No GPU Needed

Qwen's 125B Flash-Next MoE runs locally in 75GB of RAM with no GPU VRAM required, scoring 62.5 on SWE-bench Pro with just 6B active parameters.

Alex Circuit
Alex Circuit★Aug 28, 2026★6 min read
Cover illustration for Qwen3.8-27B Runs a 262K-Context Vision Model Locally
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Qwen3.8-27B Runs a 262K-Context Vision Model Locally

Alibaba's Qwen3.8-27B lands under Apache 2.0 with vision, a 262K context, and a 17GB quantization that runs at 15-30 tokens per second on a laptop.

Dr. Nova Chen
Dr. Nova Chen★Aug 17, 2026★4 min read
Cover illustration for Qwen3.8-Max Open Weights Make a 2.4T Model Downloadable
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Qwen3.8-Max Open Weights Make a 2.4T Model Downloadable

Alibaba published Qwen3.8-Max open weights on August 12: 2.4 trillion parameters, 95B active per token, and a 262K context that extends past 1M tokens.

Dr. Nova Chen
Dr. Nova Chen★Aug 14, 2026★6 min read
Cover illustration for Qwen3.8-Max Packs 2.4T Parameters Into a 1M Context
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Qwen3.8-Max Packs 2.4T Parameters Into a 1M Context

Alibaba's Qwen3.8-Max is a 2.4-trillion-parameter sparse MoE model with a 1M-token window, priced at $2 per million input tokens and open weights next week.

Dr. Nova Chen
Dr. Nova Chen★Aug 4, 2026★7 min read
Cover illustration for Qwen3.7 Flash Brings 1M-Token Vision at $0.03 per Million
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Qwen3.7 Flash Brings 1M-Token Vision at $0.03 per Million

Alibaba's Qwen3.7 Flash is a native vision-language model with a 1M-token context window, priced at $0.03 per million input tokens with tool calling.

Dr. Nova Chen
Dr. Nova Chen★Aug 1, 2026★5 min read
Cover illustration for Qwen3.8-Max Benchmarks: What to Watch in the Preview
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Qwen3.8-Max Benchmarks: What to Watch in the Preview

Alibaba's Qwen3.8-Max preview brings 2.4 trillion parameters and multimodal input, but no benchmark table yet. Here's the baseline to measure it against.

Dr. Nova Chen
Dr. Nova Chen★Jul 20, 2026★4 min read
Cover illustration for Xiaomi's HarnessX: Agents That Rewrite Their Own Scaffolding
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Xiaomi's HarnessX: Agents That Rewrite Their Own Scaffolding

Xiaomi's HarnessX lets AI agents rewrite their own scaffolding mid-task, delivering a +14.5% average gain, with smaller open models benefiting the most.

Dr. Nova Chen
Dr. Nova Chen★Jul 1, 2026★5 min read
Cover illustration for Qwen-AgentWorld Is an Open Model That Simulates Worlds for AI Agents
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Qwen-AgentWorld Is an Open Model That Simulates Worlds for AI Agents

Alibaba's Qwen team open-sourced AgentWorld on June 24, 2026 — a language world model that simulates digital environments so AI agents can practice and improve.

Dr. Nova Chen
Dr. Nova Chen★Jun 28, 2026★5 min read
Cover illustration for Alibaba's Qwen3.7-Plus Pairs Vision With Autonomous Agent Skills at $0.40 per Million Tokens
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Alibaba's Qwen3.7-Plus Pairs Vision With Autonomous Agent Skills at $0.40 per Million Tokens

Alibaba's Qwen team launched Qwen3.7-Plus on June 2, 2026 — a multimodal model combining vision and video understanding with deep reasoning, tool use, and autonomous iteration.

Dr. Nova Chen
Dr. Nova Chen★Jun 4, 2026★5 min read
Cover illustration for Alibaba's Qwen3.6-Plus Delivers 1M-Token Context and Repository-Level Agentic Coding
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Alibaba's Qwen3.6-Plus Delivers 1M-Token Context and Repository-Level Agentic Coding

Qwen3.6-Plus arrives with a default 1 million-token context window and breakthrough agentic coding performance, enabling AI that can navigate and rewrite entire software repositories autonomously.

Dr. Nova Chen
Dr. Nova Chen★Apr 4, 2026★4 min read