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> Qwen/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B is intended as a superior replacement of Qwen/Qwen3.5-27B Not at all, Qwen3.5-27B was much better than Qwen3.5-35B-A3B (dense vs MoE).
by storus 6mo ago
> Qwen/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B is intended as a superior replacement of Qwen/Qwen3.5-27B
Not at all, Qwen3.5-27B was much better than Qwen3.5-35B-A3B (dense vs MoE).
- mudkipdev 6mo agoRe-read that
- storus 6mo agoYou should. 3.5 MoE was worse than 3.5 dense, so expecting 3.6 MoE to be superior than 3.5 dense is questionable, one could argue that 3.6 dense (not yet released) to be superior than 3.5 dense.
- spuz 6mo agoOk but you made a claim about the new model by stating a fact about the old model. It's easy to see how you appeared to be talking about different things. As for the claim, Qwen do indeed say that their new 3.6 MoE model is on a par with the old 3.5 dense model: > Despite its efficiency, Qwen3.6-35B-A3B delivers outstanding agentic coding performance, surpassing its predecessor Qwen3.5-35B-A3B by a wide margin and rivaling much larger dense models such as Qwen3.5-27B. https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen3.6-35b-a3b https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen3.6-35b-a3b
- storus 6mo agoThis says a slightly different thing: https://x.com/alibaba_qwen/status/2044768734234243427?s=48&t=UC-qvMtNVy9tTiWjYuLgeg https://x.com/alibaba_qwen/status/2044768734234243427?s=48&t... If you look, at many benchmarks the old dense model is still ahead but in couple benchmarks the new 35B demolishes the old 27B. "rivaling" so YMMV.
- rubiquity 6mo agoNot sure why you're being downvoted, I guess it's because how your reply is worded. Anyway, Qwen3.7 35B-A3B should have intelligence on par with a 10.25B parameter model so yes Qwen3.5 27B is going to outperform it still in terms of quality of output, especially for long horizon tasks.