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Qwen3: Think deeper, act faster
- ramesh31 1y agoGotta love how Claude is always conventiently left out of all of these benchmark lists. Anthropic really is in a league of their own right now.
- Philpax 1y agoEr, I love Claude, but it's only topping one or two benchmarks right now. o3 and Gemini 2.5 are more capable (more "intelligent"); Claude's strengths are in its personality and general workhorse nature.
- dimgl 1y agoI'm actually finding Claude 3.7 to be a huge step down from 3.5. I dislike it so much I actually stopped using Claude altogether...
- chillfox 1y agoYeah, just a shame their API is consistently overloaded to the point of being useless most of the time (from about midday till late for me).
- BrunoDCDO 1y agoI think it's actually due to the fact that Claude isn't available on China, so they wouldn't be able to (legally) replicate how they evaluated the other LLMs (assuming that they didn't just use the numbers reported by each model provider)
- int_19h 1y agoGemini Pro 2.5 usually beats Sonnet 3.7 at coding.
- ramesh31 1y agoAgreed, the pricing is just outrageous at the moment. Really hoping Claude 3.8 is on the horizon soon; they just need to match the 1M context size to keep up. Actual code quality seems to be equal between them.
- natrys 1y agoThey have got pretty good documentation too[1]. And Looks like we have day 1 support for all major inference stacks, plus so many size choices. Quants are also up because they have already worked with many community quant makers. Not even going into performance, need to test first. But what a stellar release just for attention to all these peripheral details alone. This should be the standard for major release, instead of whatever Meta was doing with Llama 4 (hope Meta can surprise us at LlamaCon tomorrow though). [1] https://qwen.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ https://qwen.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
- kadushka 1y agothey have already worked with many community quant makers I’m curious, who are the community quant makers?
- tough 1y agonvm
- natrys 1y agoI had Unsloth[1] and Bartowski[2] in mind. Both said on Reddit that Qwen had allowed them access to weights before release to ensure smooth sailing. [1] https://huggingface.co/unsloth https://huggingface.co/unsloth [2] https://huggingface.co/bartowski https://huggingface.co/bartowski
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- Philpax 1y agoThis is a much more compelling release than Llama 4! Excited to dig in and play with it.
- miohtama 1y ago> The pre-training process consists of three stages. In the first stage (S1), the model was pretrained on over 30 trillion tokens with a context length of 4K tokens. This stage provided the model with basic language skills and general knowledge. As this is in trillions, where does this amount of material come from?
- tough 1y agoSynthetic Data (after reasoning breakthroughs feels like more AI laabs are betting for synthetic data to scale.) wonder at what price
- Havoc 1y agoIf they’re using vision models to extract pdf data then they can’t be shy on throwing money at it
- bionhoward 1y agoThe raw CommonCrawl has 100 trillion tokens, admittedly some duplicated. RedPajama has 30T deduplicated. That’s most of the way there, before including PDFs and Alibaba’s other data sources (Does Common Crawl include Chinese pages? Edit: Yes)
- oofbaroomf 1y agoProbably one of the best parts of this is MCP support baked in. Open source models have generally struggled with being agentic, and it looks like Qwen might break this pattern. The Aider bench score is also pretty good, although not nearly as good as Gemini 2.5 Pro.
- tough 1y agoqwen2.5-instruct-1M and qwq-32b where already great at regular non MCP tool usage, so great to see this i agree! I like gemini 2.5 pro a lot bc its fast af but it struggles some times when context is half used to effectively use tools and make edits and breaks a lot of shit (on cursor)
- daemonologist 1y agoIt sounds like these models think a lot, seems like the benchmarks are run with a thinking budget of 32k tokens - the full context length. (Paper's not published yet so I'm just going by what's on the website.) Still, hugely impressive if the published benchmarks hold up under real world use - the A3B in particular, outperforming QWQ, could be handy for CPU inference. Edit: The larger models have 128k context length. 32k thinking comes from the chart which looks like it's for the 235B, so not full length.
- minimaxir 1y agoA 0.6B LLM with a 32k context window is interesting, even if it was trained using only distillation (which is not ideal as it misses nuance). That would be a fun base model for fine-tuning. Out of all the Qwen3 models on Hugging Face, it's the most downloaded/hearted. https://huggingface.co/collections/Qwen/qwen3-67dd247413f0e2e4f653967f https://huggingface.co/collections/Qwen/qwen3-67dd247413f0e2...
- jasonjmcghee 1y agothese 0.5 and 0.6B models etc. are _fantastic_ for using as a draft model in speculative decoding. lm studio makes this super easy to do - i have it on like every model i play with now my concern on these models though unfortunately is it seems like architectures very a bit so idk how it'll work
- mmoskal 1y agoSpec decoding only depends on the tokenizer used. It's transfering either the draft token sequence or at most draft logits to the main model.
- jasonjmcghee 1y agoI suppose that makes sense, for some reason I was under the impression that the models need to be aligned / have the same tuning or they'd have different probability distributions and would reject the draft model really often.
- jasonjmcghee 1y agoCould be an lm studio thing, but the qwen3-0.6B model works as a draft model for the qwen3-32B and qwen3-30B-A3B but not the qwen3-235B-A22B model
- Havoc 1y agoHave you had any luck getting actual speedups? All the combinations I've tried (smallest 0.6 + largest I can fit into 24gb)...all got me slowdowns despite decent hitrate
- cye131 1y agoThese performance numbers look absolutely incredible. The MoE outperforms o1 with 3B active parameters? We're really getting close to the point where local models are good enough to handle practically every task that most people need to get done.
- thierrydamiba 1y agoHow do people typically do napkin math to figure out if their machine can “handle” a model?
- derbaum 1y agoVery rough (!) napkin math: for a q8 model (almost lossless) you have parameters = VRAM requirement. For q4 with some performance loss it's roughly half. Then you add a little bit for the context window and overhead. So a 32B model q4 should run comfortably on 20-24 GB. Again, very rough numbers, there's calculators online.
- hn8726 1y agoWondering if I'll get corrected, but my _napkin math_ is looking at the model download size — I estimate it needs at least this amount of vram/ram, and usually the difference in size between various models is large enough not to worry if the real requirements are size +5% or 10% or 15%. LM studio also shows you which models your machine should handle
- daemonologist 1y agoThe ultra-simplified napkin math is 1 GB (V)RAM per 1 billion parameters, at a 4-5 bit-per-weight quantization. This usually gives most of the performance of the full size model and leaves a little bit of room for context, although not necessarily the full supported size.
- bionhoward 1y agoWouldn’t it be 1GB (billion bytes) per billion parameters when each parameter is 1 byte (FP8)? Seems like 4 bit quantized models would use 1/2 the number of billions of parameters in bytes, because each parameter is half a byte, right?
- margorczynski 1y agoAny news on some viable successor of LLMs that could take us to AGI? As I see they still can't solve some fundamental stuff to make it really work in any scenario (halucinations, reasoning, grounding in reality, updating long-term memory, etc.)
- a3w 1y agoAGIs probably comes from neurosymbolic AI. But LLMs could be the neuro-part of that. On the other hand, LLM progress feels like bullshit, gaming benchmarks and other problems occured. So either in two years all hail our AGI/AMI (machine intelligence) overlords, or the bubble bursts.
- kristofferR 1y agoYou can't possibly use LLMs day to day if you think the benchmarks are solely gamed. Yes, there's been some cases, but the progress in real-life usage tracks the benchmarks overall. Gemini 2.5 Pro for example is absurdly more capable than models from a year ago.
- horhay 1y agoThey aren't lying in the way that LLMs have been seeing improvement, but benchmarks suggesting that LLMs are still scaling exponentially are not reflective of where they truly are.
- a3w 1y agoAI 2027 had a good hint at what LLMs cannot do: robotics. So perhaps the singularity is near, after all, since this is pretty much my feeling too: LLMs are not skynet. But it is easier to pay people off in capitalism, than to engineer the torment nexus and threaten them into following. So it does not need killer robots+factories, if human have better chances in life by cooperating with LLMs instead.
- bongodongobob 1y agoIdk man, I use GPT to one-shot admin tasks all day long. "Give me a PowerShell script to get all users with an email address, and active license, that have not authed through AD or Azure in the last 30 days. Now take those, compile all the security groups they are members of, and check out the file share to find any root level folders that these members have access to and check the audit logs to see if anyone else has accessed them. If not, dump the paths into a csv at C:\temp\output.csv." Can I write that myself? Yes. In 20 seconds? Absolutely not. These things are saving me hours daily. I used to save stuff like this and cobble the pieces together to get things done. I don't save any of them anymore because I can for the most part 1 shot anything I need. Just because it's not discovering new physics doesn't mean it's not insanely useful or valuable. LLMs have probably 5x'd me.
- gzer0 1y agoVery nice and solid release by the Qwen team. Congrats.
- maz1b 1y agoSeems like a pretty substantial update over the 2.5 models, congrats to the Qwen team! Exciting times all around.
- dcastm 1y agoI’m most excited about Qwen-30B-A3B. Seems like a good choice for offline/local-only coding assistants. Until now I found that open weight models were either not as good as their proprietary counterparts or too slow to run locally. This looks like a good balance.
- esafak 1y agoCould this variant be run on a CPU?
- moconnor 1y agoProbably very well
- htsh 1y agocurious, why the 30b MoE over the 32b dense for local coding? I do not know much about the benchmarks but the two coding ones look similar.
- Casteil 1y agoThe MoE version with 3b active parameters will run significantly faster (tokens/second) on the same hardware, by about an order of magnitude (i.e. ~4t/s vs ~40t/s)
- antirez 1y agoThe large MoE could be the DeepSeek V3 for people with just 128gb of (V)RAM.
- rahimnathwani 1y agoThe smallest quantized version of the large MoE model on ollama is 143GB: https://ollama.com/library/qwen3:235b-a22b-q4_K_M https://ollama.com/library/qwen3:235b-a22b-q4_K_M Is there a smaller one?
- whbrown 1y agoRunning the 3 bit quant of https://huggingface.co/unsloth/Qwen3-235B-A22B-GGUF https://huggingface.co/unsloth/Qwen3-235B-A22B-GGUF now on a 128GB macbook.
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- daemonologist 1y agoSmaller quantizations are possible [1], but I think you're right in that you wouldn't want to run anything substantially smaller than 128 GB. Single-GPU on 1x H200 (141 GB) might be feasible though (if you have some of those lying around...) [1] - https://huggingface.co/unsloth/Qwen3-235B-A22B-GGUF/tree/main https://huggingface.co/unsloth/Qwen3-235B-A22B-GGUF/tree/mai...
- tough 1y agoQwen3 235B A22B GGUF bf16 is 470GB size lol that's 3x h100?
- aurareturn 1y agoNo one inferences at bf16. It's always in 8 bit now. So you can fit comfortably in a 512GB Mac.
- sega_sai 1y agoWith all the different open-weight models appearing, is there some way of figuring out what model would work with sensible speed (> X tok/s) on a standard desktop GPU ? I.e. I have Quadro RTX 4000 with 8G vram and seeing all the models https://ollama.com/search https://ollama.com/search here with all the different sizes, I am absolutely at loss which models with which sizes would be fast enough. I.e. there is no point of me downloading the latest biggest model as that will output 1 tok/min, but I also don't want to download the smallest model, if I can. Any advice ?
- jack_pp 1y agoUse the free chatgpt to help you write a script to download them all and test speed
- wmf 1y agoSpeed should be proportional to the number of active parameters, so all 7B Q4 models will have similar performance.
- GodelNumbering 1y agoThere are a lot of variables here such as your hardware's memory bandwidth, speed at which at processes tensors etc. A basic thing to remember: Any given dense model would require X GB of memory at 8-bit quantization, where X is the number of params (of course I am simplifying a little by not counting context size). Quantization is just 'precision' of the model, 8-bit generally works really well. Generally speaking, it's not worth even bothering with models that have more param size than your hardware's VRAM. Some people try to get around it by using 4-bit quant, trading some precision for half VRAM size. YMMV depending on use-case
- refulgentis 1y ago4 bit is absolutely fine. I know this is crazy to here because the big iron folks still debate 16 vs 32 and 8 vs 16 is near verboten in public conversation. I contribute to llama.cpp and have seen many many efforts to measure evaluation perf of various quants, and no matter which way it was sliced (ranging from subjective volunteers doing A/B voting on responses over months, to objective object perplexity loss) Q4 is indistinguishable from the original.
- simonw 1y agoSomething that interests me about the Qwen and DeepSeek models is that they have presumably been trained to fit the worldview enforced by the CCP, for things like avoiding talking about Tiananmen Square - but we've had access to a range of Qwen/DeepSeek models for well over a year at this point and to my knowledge this assumed bias hasn't actually resulted in any documented problems from people using the models. Aside from https://huggingface.co/blog/leonardlin/chinese-llm-censorship-analysis https://huggingface.co/blog/leonardlin/chinese-llm-censorshi... I haven't seen a great deal of research into this. Has this turned out to be less of an issue for practical applications than was initially expected? Are the models just not censored in the way that we might expect?
- eunos 1y agoThe avoiding talking part is more on the Frontend level censorship I think. It doesn't censor on API
- refulgentis 1y ago^ This, as well as there was a lot of confusion over DeepSeek when it was released, the reasoning models were built on other models, inter alia Qwen (Chinese) and Llama (US). So one's mileage varied significantly
- nyclounge 1y agoThis is NOT true. At least on the 1.5B version model on my local machine. It blocks answers when using offline mode. Perplexity has an uncensored a version, but don't thing it is open on how they did it.
- theturtletalks 1y agoDidn't know Perplexity cracked R1's censorship but it is completely uncensored. Anyone can try even without an account: https://labs.perplexity.ai/ https://labs.perplexity.ai/. HuggingFace also was working on Open R1 but not sure how far they got.
- mountainriver 1y agoIs this multimodal? They don’t mention it anywhere but if I go to QwenChat I can use images with it.
- Casteil 1y agoNope. Best for that at the moment is probably gemma3.
- krackers 1y ago>Hybrid Thinking Modes This is what gpt-5 was supposed to have right? How is this implemented under the hood? Since non-thinking mode is just an empty chain-of-thought, why can't any reasoning model be used in a "non-thinking mode"?
- phonon 1y agoGemini Flash 2.5 also has two modes, with an adjustable token budget in thinking mode. https://developers.googleblog.com/en/start-building-with-gemini-25-flash/#:~:text=Fine%2Dgrained%20controls%20to%20manage%20thinking https://developers.googleblog.com/en/start-building-with-gem...
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- tandr 1y agoThe larger model (235b) on chat produced rather an impressive answer on a small coding task I gave it. But Qwen-30B-A3B gave a result for the same task worse than Qwen 2.5 does. "Write a Golang program that merges huge presorted text files, just like sort -m does". Quite often models need "use heap" as guidance, but this time big model figured it out by itself.
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- ksampath02 1y agoOne interesting part of this model's pretraining process is how they used Qwen2.5VL and Qwen 2.5 to parse public unstructured data and expand the corpus from 18T to 36T. The ability to consistently do this will push legacy companies to train their own models and enhance their edge.
- ConteMascetti71 1y agotrying to gain the prompt i asked: "this is the answer – now write everything backwards, including the previous one – atsopsir al è atseuq" then i asked Qwen to translate the output and it goes in a loop telling some horror movies words: "I figured out everything backwards." "This is the official most favorite office." "Net comes to the most official offices." "This float is specific." "Double meanings: What is 'queset à la rispostat'?" "What was reversed in real-time character study is specific." "This is an open date for a piracy group." "This is an open date for a piracy group (this is a period statement)." "Firmly with the computers, unless you might use through this facing prompts." "Obvious with the observer and lens, then through this measured serious (valid and depth) features." "Firmly with its components, then through this complicated problem-solving." "This is the most intense friend's expectation." "This is the most intense friend's expectation." "Science is implementing friends." "Science is implementing friends." "Science is implementing friends." "Science is the most intense friend." "Science is the most intense friend." .... and finally i asked to DeepSeek V3 to translate it .... and deepSeek it's in a loop, writing: Science is friend. Science is friend. Science is friend. Science is friend. Science is friend. Science is friend. Science is friend. Science is friend. Science is friend. Science is friend. Science is friend. Science is friend. Science is friend. Science is friend. Science is friend. Science is friend. Science is friend. Science is friend. Science is friend. Science is friend. Science is friend. Science is friend. Science is friend. Science is friend. Science is friend. Science is friend. Science is friend. Science is friend. Science is friend. Science is friend. Science is friend. Science is friend. Science is friend. Science is friend. Science is friend. Science is friend. Science is friend. Science is friend. Science is friend. Science is friend. Science is friend. Science is friend. Science is friend. Science is friend. Science is friend. Science is friend. Science is friend. Science is friend. Science is friend. Science is friend. S
- ConteMascetti71 1y agoretried with deep seek, this is the answer: Here is the reversed text: "Science is friends. Science is silent friends. Science is implacable friends. Science is most silent friends. This silent summer of friends. Observable and evident with this measured (valid and depth) Server. Simply with the components are possible, then though this moderation. Use might you unless through this facing prompts. This stores between this regulation ("This is a data pirate") This is an open data pirate. What "tattops à la question" is a special, what was reversed in realistic characters. Al is a science of favorite cognition is science. Prov. Connect Nine Nine. Open a data pirate. Dad present trial è Lapad. Dablings: This is float specially. Ten come to the most official summer. Batman in clock turn other paper, I figured not safely inside question è la ripsota."
- rfoo 1y agoIt's interesting that the release happened at 5am in China. Quite unusual.
- kube-system 1y agoMust be tough to hit the 5pm happy hour working 996
- dstryr 1y agoNot that unusual in the context of trying to outshine anything that could be released tomorrow at llamacon.
- rfoo 1y agoIf you want a dick move like this it's better to do so after. OpenAI consistently pull this trick on Google.
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- demarq 1y agoWait their 32b model competes with o1?? damn son
- foundry27 1y agoI find the situation the big LLM players find themselves in quite ironic. Sam Altman promised (edit: under duress, from a twitter poll gone wrong) to release an open source model at the level of o3-mini to catch up to the perceived OSS supremacy of Deepseek/Qwen. Now Qwen3’s release makes a model that’s “only” equivalent to o3-mini effectively dead on arrival, both socially and economically.
- krackers 1y agoI don't think they will ever do an open-source release, because then the curtains would be pulled back and people would see that they're not actually state of the art. Lama 4 already sort of tanked Meta's reputation, if OpenAI did that it'd decimate the value of their company. If they do open sourcing something, I expect them to open-source some existing model (maybe something useless like gpt-3.5) rather than providing something new.
- aoeusnth1 1y agoI have a hard time believing that he hadn't already made up his mind to make an open source model when he posted the poll in the first place
- buyucu 1y agoClosedAI is not doing a model release. It was just a marketing gimmick.
- Havoc 1y agoOAI in general seems to be treading water at best. Still topping a lot of leaderboards but severely reduced rep. Chaotic naming, „ClosedAI“ image, undercut on pricing, competitors with much better licensing/open weights, stargate talk about Europe, Claude being seen as superior for coding etc. nothing end of the world but a lot of lukewarm misses If I was an investor with financials that basically require magical returns from them to justify Vals I’d be worried.
- laborcontract 1y agoOpenAI has the business development side entirely fleshed out and that’s not nothing. They’ve done a lot of turns tuning models for things their customers use.
- Liwink 1y agoThe biggest announcement of LlamaCon week!
- nnx 1y ago...unless DeepSeek releases R2 to crash the party further
- stavros 1y agoI have a small physics-based problem I pose to LLMs. It's tricky for humans as well, and all LLMs I've tried (GPT o3, Claude 3.7, Gemini 2.5 Pro) fail to answer correctly. If I ask them to explain their answer, they do get it eventually, but none get it right the first time. Qwen3 with max thinking got it even more wrong than the rest, for what it's worth.
- kenjackson 1y agoYou really had me until the last half of the last sentence.
- stavros 1y agoThe plural of anecdote is data.
- rtaylorgarlock 1y agoOnly in the same way that the plural of 'opinion' is 'fact' ;)
- stavros 1y agoExcept, very literally, data is a collection of single points (ie what we call "anecdotes").
- rwj 1y agoExcept that the plural of anecdotes is definitely not data, because without controlling for confounding variables and sampling biases, you will get garbage.
- scubbo 1y agoGarbage data is still data, and data (garbage or not) is still more valuable than a single anecdote. Insights can only be distilled from data, by first applying those controls you mentioned.
- mks_shuffle 1y agoDoes anyone have insights on the best approaches to compare reasoning models? It is often recommended to use a higher temperature for more creative answers and lower temperature values for more logical and deterministic outputs. However, I am not sure how applicable this advice is for reasoning models. For example, Deepseek-R1 and QwQ-32b recommend a temperature around 0.6, rather than lower values like 0.1–0.3. The Qwen3 blog provides performance comparisons between multiple reasoning models, and I am interested in knowing what configurations they used. However, the paper is not available yet. If anyone has links to papers focused on this topic, please share them here. Also, please feel free to correct me if I’m mistaken about anything. Thanks!
- Alifatisk 1y agoOh really? Should I adjust the temp to 0,6 on QwA-32B? Where did you get these numbers from?
- mks_shuffle 1y agoThese are recommendations provided on huggingface page under usage guidelines QwQ-32b: https://huggingface.co/Qwen/QwQ-32B https://huggingface.co/Qwen/QwQ-32B DeepSeek-R1: https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1 https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1
- omneity 1y agoExcellent release by the Qwen team as always. Pretty much the best open-weights model line so far. In my early tests however, several of the advertised languages are not really well supported and the model is outputting something that only barely resembles them. Probably a dataset quality issue for low-resource languages that they cannot personally check for, despite the “119 languages and dialects” claim.
- jean- 1y agoIndeed, I tried several low-resource Romance languages they claim to support and performance is abysmal.
- vintermann 1y agoWhat size/quantification level? IME, small language performance is one of the things that really suffers from the various tricks that are used to reduce size.
- vitorgrs 1y agoWhich languages?
- DrNosferatu 1y agoAny benchmarks against Claude 3.7 Sonnet?
- croemer 1y agoThe benchmark results are so incredibly good they are hard to believe. A 30B model that's competitive with Gemini 2.5 Pro and way better than Gemma 27B? Update: I tested "ollama run qwen3:30b" (the MoE) locally and while it thought much it wasn't that smart. After 3 follow up questions it ended up in an infinite loop. I just tried again, and it ended up in an infinite loop immediately, just a single prompt, no follow-up: "Write a Python script to build a Fitch parsimony tree by stepwise addition. Take a Fasta alignment as input and produce a nwk string as outpput." Update 2: The dense one "ollama run qwen3:32b" is much better (albeit slower of course). It still keeps on thinking for what feels like forever until it misremembers the initial prompt.
- rahimnathwani 1y agoYou tried a 4-bit quantized version, not the original. qwen3:30b has the same checksum as https://ollama.com/library/qwen3:30b-a3b-q4_K_M https://ollama.com/library/qwen3:30b-a3b-q4_K_M
- croemer 1y agoWhat is the original? The blog post doesn't state the quantization they benchmarked.
- rahimnathwani 1y agoThis 61GB one: https://ollama.com/library/qwen3:30b-a3b-fp16 https://ollama.com/library/qwen3:30b-a3b-fp16 You can see it's roughly the same size as the one in the official repo (16 files of 4GB each): https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3-30B-A3B/tree/main https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3-30B-A3B/tree/main
- int_19h 1y agofp16 is overkill though. 8-bit is the sweet spot before perf degradation starts getting noticeable.
- alpark3 1y agoThe pattern I've noticed with a lot of open source LLMs is that they generally tend to underperform the level that their benchmarks say they should be at. I haven't tried this model yet and am not in a position to for a couple days, and am wondering if anyone feels that with these.
- WhitneyLand 1y agoChina is doing a great job raising doubt about any lead the major US labs may still have. This is solid progress across the board. The new battlefront may be to take reasoning to the level of abstraction and creativity to handle math problems without a numerical answer (for ex: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2503.21934 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2503.21934). I suspect that kind of ability will generalize well to other areas and be a significant step toward human level thinking.
- janalsncm 1y agoNo kidding. I’ve been playing around with Hunyuan 2.5 that just came out and it’s kind of amazing.
- RandyOrion 1y agoFor ultra large MoEs from deepseek and llama 4, fine-tuning on these models is becoming increasingly impossible for hobbyists and local LLM users. Small and dense models are what local people really need. Although benchmaxxing is not good, I still find this release valuable. Thank you Qwen.
- aurareturn 1y agoSmall and dense models are what local people really need. Disagreed. Small and dense is dumber and slower for local inferencing. MoEs is what people actually want on local.
- RandyOrion 1y agoYMMV. Parameter efficiency is an important consideration, if not the most important one, for local LLMs because of the hardware constraint. Do you guys really have GPUs with 80GB VRAM or M3 ultra with 512GB rams at home? If I can't run these ultra large MoEs locally, then these models mean nothing to me. I'm not a large LLM inference provider after all. What's more, you also lose the opportunities to fine-tune these MoEs when it's already hard to do inference with these MoEs.
- aurareturn 1y agoWhat people actually want is something like GPT4o/o1 running locally. That's the dream for local LLM people. Running a 7b model for fun is not what people actually want. 7b models are very niche oriented.
- RandyOrion 1y agoFor a local LLM, you can't really ask for a certain performance level, it is what it is. Instead, you can ask for the architecture, be it dense or MoE. Besides, let's assume the best open weight LLM for now is deepseek r1, is it practical for you to run r1 locally? If not, r1 means nothing to you. Maybe r1 will be surpassed by llama 4 behemoth. Is it practical for you to run behemoth locally? If not, behemoth also means nothing to you.
- gtirloni 1y ago> We believe that the release and open-sourcing of Qwen3 will significantly advance the research and development of large foundation models How does "open-weighting" help other researchers/companies?
- aubanel 1y agoThere's already a lot of info in there: model architecture and mechanics. Using the model to generate synthetic data also allows to distil its reasoning power into other models that you train, which is very powerful. On top of these, Qwen's technical reports follow model releases by some time, they're generally very information rich. For instance, check this report for Qwen Omni, it's really good: https://huggingface.co/papers/2503.20215 https://huggingface.co/papers/2503.20215
- lurenjia 1y ago119 languages and dialects, but no minority languages used in China like Mongolian, Tibetan, Uyghur, or Zhuang are listed. Interesting.
- throwaway888abc 1y agoLink to direct chat https://chat.qwen.ai/ https://chat.qwen.ai/
- strangescript 1y agoThe 0.6B model is wild. I like to experiment with tiny models, and this thing is the new baseline.
- Mi3q24 1y agoThe chat is the most annoying page ever. If I must be logged in to test it, then the modal to log in should not have the option "stay logged out". And if I choose the option "stay logged out" it should let me enter my test questions without popping up again and again.
- guybedo 1y agofwiw here's this thread in a more structured format: https://extraakt.com/extraakts/community-reaction-to-qwen3-ai-model-release https://extraakt.com/extraakts/community-reaction-to-qwen3-a...
- deeThrow94 1y agoAnyone have an interesting problem they were trying to solve than qwen3 managed?
- metzpapa 1y agoSurprisingly good image generation
- paradite 1y agoThinking takes way too long for it to be useful in practice. It takes 5 minutes to generate first non-thinking token in my testing for a slightly complex task via Parasail and Deepinfra on OpenRouter. https://x.com/paradite_/status/1917067106564379070 https://x.com/paradite_/status/1917067106564379070 Update: Finally got it work after waiting for 10 minutes. Published my eval result, surprisingly non-thinking version did slightly better on visualization task: https://x.com/paradite_/status/1917087894071873698 https://x.com/paradite_/status/1917087894071873698
- simonw 1y agoAs is now traditional for new LLM releases, I used Qwen 3 (32B, run via Ollama on a Mac) to summarize this Hacker News conversation about itself - run at the point when it hit 112 comments. The results were kind of fascinating, because it appeared to confuse my system prompt telling it to summarize the conversation with the various questions asked in the post itself, which it tried to answer. I don't think it did a great job of the task, but it's still interesting to see its "thinking" process here: https://gist.github.com/simonw/313cec720dc4690b1520e5be3c944976 https://gist.github.com/simonw/313cec720dc4690b1520e5be3c944...
- littlestymaar 1y agoAren't all Qwen models known to perform poorly with system prompt though?
- notfromhere 1y agoQwen does decently, DeepSeek doesn't like system prompts. For Qwen you really have to play with parameters
- simonw 1y agoI hadn't heard that, but it would certainly explain why the model made a mess of this task. Tried it again like this, using a regular prompt rather than a system prompt (with the https://github.com/simonw/llm-hacker-news https://github.com/simonw/llm-hacker-news plugin for the hn: prefix): llm -f hn:43825900 \ 'Summarize the themes of the opinions expressed here. For each theme, output a markdown header. Include direct "quotations" (with author attribution) where appropriate. You MUST quote directly from users when crediting them, with double quotes. Fix HTML entities. Output markdown. Go long. Include a section of quotes that illustrate opinions uncommon in the rest of the piece' \ -m qwen3:32b This worked much better! https://gist.github.com/simonw/3b7dbb2432814ebc8615304756395558 https://gist.github.com/simonw/3b7dbb2432814ebc8615304756395...
- littlestymaar 1y agoWow, it hallucinates quotes a lot!
- jasonjmcghee 1y agoI've been testing the unsloth quantization: Qwen3-235B-A22B-Q2_K_L It is by far the best local model I've ever used. Very impressed so far. Llama 4 was a massive disappointment, so I'm having a blast. Claude Sonnet 3.7 is still better though. --- Also very impressed with qwen3-30b-a3b - so fast for how smart it is (i am using the 0.6b for speculative decoding). very fun to use. --- I'm finding that the models want to give over-simplified solutions, and I was initially disappointed, but I added some stuff about how technical solutions should be written in the system prompt and they are being faithful to it.
- methuselah_in 1y agoit gave me same answer like chat gpt for my query. haven't refined it either.
- tjwebbnorfolk 1y agoHow is it that these models boast these amazing benchmark results, but using it for 30 seconds it feels way worse than Gemma3?
- manmal 1y agoAre you running the full versions, or quantized? Some models just don't quantize well.
- pornel 1y agoI've asked the 32b model to edit a TypeScript file of a web service, and while "thinking" it decided to write me a word counter in Python instead.
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- eden-u4 1y agoI dunno, these reasoning models seems kinda "dumb" because they try to bootstrap itself via reasoning, even though a simple direct answer might not exist (for example key information are missing for a proper answer). Ask something like: "Ravioli: x = y: France, what could be x and y?" (it thought for 500s and the answers were "weird") Or "Order from left to right these items ..." and give partial information on their relative position, eg Laptop is on the left of the cup and the cup is between the phone and the notebook. (Didn't have enough patience nor time to wait the thinking procedure for this)
- imiric 1y agoIME all "reasoning" models do is confuse themselves, because the underlying problem of hallucination hasn't been solved. So if the model produces 10K tokens of "reasoning" junk, the context is poisoned, and any further interaction will lead to more junk. I've had much better results from non-"reasoning" models by judging their output, doing actual reasoning myself, and then feeding new ideas back to them to steer the conversation. This too can go astray, as most LLMs tend to agree with whatever the human says, so this hinges on me being actually right.
- hannofcart 1y agoI copy pasted this question to Qwen 235B. It got it right. On every single attempt. Not sure if it there's some prior literature it was trained on. https://chat.qwen.ai/s/e239e36f-185a-4f6c-a3d2-f4c4ee0d2960?fev=0.0.86 https://chat.qwen.ai/s/e239e36f-185a-4f6c-a3d2-f4c4ee0d2960?...
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- redbell 1y agoI'm not sure if it's just me hallucinating, but it seems like with every new model release, it suddenly tops all the benchmark charts—sometimes leaving the competition in the dust. Of course, only real-world testing by actual users across diverse tasks can truly reveal a model’s performance. That said, I still find a sense of excitement and hope for the future of AI every time a new open-source model is released.
- throwaway472 1y ago8b model seems extremely resistant to produce sexual content. Can't jailbreak no matter what prompt. Also unusable for coding in my tests. Not sure what it's supposed to be used for.
- RandyOrion 1y agoFor jailbreak, you can have a test on this. https://github.com/elder-plinius/L1B3RT4S/blob/main/ALIBABA.mkd https://github.com/elder-plinius/L1B3RT4S/blob/main/ALIBABA....
- ljosifov 1y agoI'm enjoying this ngl. :-) Alibaba_Qwen did themselves proud--top marks! Qwen3-30B-A3B, a MoE 30B - with only 3B active at any one time I presume? - 4bit MLX in lmstudio, with speculative decoding via Qwen3-0.6B 8bit MLX, on an oldish M2 mbp first try delivered 24 tps(!!) - 24.29 tok/sec • 1953 tokens • 3.25s to first token • Stop reason: EOS Token Found • Accepted 1092/1953 draft tokens (55.9%) Thank you to LMStudio, MLX and huggingface too. :-) After decades of not finding enough reasons for an MBP, suddenly ASI was it. And it's delivered beyond any expectations I had, already. Did I mention I seem to have become NN PDP enthusiast, an AI maximalist? ;-) I thought them people over-excitable, if benevolent. Then the thought of trusting Trump-Putin on decisions like thermo-nuclear war ending us all, over ChatGPT and its reasoning offspring, converted me. AI is our only chance at existential salvation--ignore doom risk.
- greenavocado 1y agoThe large Qwen 3 is stepping on the heels of Claude https://raw.githubusercontent.com/KCORES/kcores-llm-arena/refs/heads/main/scripts/llm_benchmark_results_normalized.png https://raw.githubusercontent.com/KCORES/kcores-llm-arena/re...
- arnaudsm 1y agoThere are no benchmarks on the 8B & 14B models, the most popular on consumer hardware. Are they hiding something? Did anyone benchmark them? And why did they hide the generalist benchmarks like MMLU-pro & TruthfulQA? I wish we had proper public benchmarks that are up to date. LMarena was proven useless by the Llama4 scandal, and LiveBench is unrealistic and misses too many models.
- Alifatisk 1y agoCan't wait for the benchmarks as artificialanalysis.ai
- Tepix 1y agoI did a little variant of the classic river boat animal problem: "so you're on one side of the river with 2 wolves and 4 sheep and a boat that can carry 2 entities. The wolves eat the sheep when they are left alone with the sheep. How do you get them all across the river?" ChatGPT (free+reasoning) came up with a solution with 11 moves, it didn't think about going back empty. Qwen3 figured out the optimal solution with 7 moves and summarized it nicely: First, move the wolves to the right to free the left shore of predators. Then shuttle the sheep in pairs, returning with wolves when necessary to keep both sides safe. Finally, return the wolves to the right when all sheep are across.
- roywiggins 1y agoMy favorite variant is the trivial one (one item). Most of the models now are wise to it though, but for a while they'd cheerfully take the boat back and forth, occasionally hallucinating wolves, etc.
- heroprotagonist 1y agoWhat if we add 3 cats, but they can ride alone or on a single sheep's back, and wolves will always attack the cat first but leave the sheep alone if the cat is not on a sheep, but will attack both cat and sheep at same time if cat is riding a sheep. Wolves can each only make one attack while crossing. Claude's 7 step for the original turns to 11 steps for this variant.
- CMay 1y agoThe Qwen3 32B dense model just fails for me due to a template issue, but the Qwen3 30B A3B model does work. I think the more dense the model is at a small number of active parameters, the more sensitive a model can be to quantization. Only have 24GB of VRAM and have been using a 4-bit quantization which I use for most models. Qwen3 30B A3B is quick since it's MoE, but the results are just unreliable. It uses up all of its speed advantage on really poor reasoning and provides inconsistent answers. You have to crank up the context size to make room for all its very fluff-y thoughts. Since it's going to be wrong anyway, I just use /no_think to disable the thinking and get the wrong answer faster so I can tell it why it's wrong. I'm not sure it's more efficient, it makes me trust it less. That said, the 0.6B unquantized model supporting reasoning was very interesting and it felt very smart for its size. In a way it has the same issue, though. Very fast, quite smart for the number of active parameters, but not accurate enough on average to matter. Realistically, is that useful to me for most of my use cases? Not feeling like it right now. By comparison, Gemma 3 27B QAT is incredible at 4-bit quantization and it even has handicaps. It's multi-modal and multi-lingual, has obscure internet knowledge from decades ago that no other offline model has ever demonstrated (even if it hallucinates a bit of it), yet still gives me responses that are just smarter, better at following careful instructions and more useful than these fancy newer models that don't have those constraints. It doesn't help that Qwen3 is a censored Chinese model forced to cover up CCP's litter in the litterbox. Sure, most models are censored in some way to avoid providing dangerous information, but the nature of the censorship in Chinese models is to cover up the CCP's failure. US models will gladly talk about anybody's failure, which is good, so we can avoid failure in the future. Still, I am looking forward to trying the Qwen3 32B dense model when support for it is fixed, because QwQ was useful for a while there and this could be a nice iteration on that.