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Bonsai vs LFM vs Qwen 3.5 vs Gemma4 E2B, which is your favorite SLM?

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8 Apr
What would you use for local coding assist on a "weak" machine (6GB VRAM 32 GB RAM) - light FE coding, no architecture. is QWEN3 good enough?

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>so as it says, I am not a FE eng, but want to do some light FE work<br /> I don't need the smartest model but need to get some work done.<br /> I

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8 Apr
In terms of Quality, how good is Bonsai 8B?

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>As the title said, I'm looking and has anybody done a comparison with other 8B or similar parameter model yet?</p> </div><!-- SC_ON --> &#32;

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6 May
Most people seem obsessed with token generation speed, but isn’t prefill the real bottleneck? Am I missing something?

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>I read this sub every day and I keep seeing benchmarks and discussions focused almost entirely on tokens/s generation speed. Prompt processing

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30 Apr
Actual comparison between locally ran Qwen-3.6-27B and proprietary models

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>Hey y'all!</p> <p>I've recently written a text in Russian about my experience comparing Qwen-3.6-27B with lower tier cloud models on hard tasks

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17 Jun
Is it only Qwen who releases 27B models ?

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>I mean, 27B is the king in Qwen 27B at the moment, GLM even could make a 27B model right and beat 3.6 ?</p> </div><!-- SC_ON --> &#32; submitted

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6 May
2.5x faster inference with Qwen 3.6 27B using MTP - Finally a viable option for local agentic coding - 262k context on 48GB - Fixed chat template - Drop-in OpenAI and Anthropic API endpoints

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><blockquote> <p><strong>WARNING: wait before download from HF: I just realised my upload of the new versions with the additional fix in the chat

OPINION · HOW · LocalLLaMAOPEN STORY
30 Mar
Qwen3.5 Omni - Qwen’s latest generation of fully omnimodal LLM

<table> <tr><td> <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/1s7rcwr/qwen35_omni_qwens_latest_generation_of_fully/"> <img alt="Qwen3.5 Omni - Qwen’s latest generation

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10 Aug
I made a web-design benchmark for local models (Muse Glimmer 30B vs Qwen 3.6 27b vs Deepseek V4 Flash 0731)

<table> <tr><td> <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1vkvdg0/i_made_a_webdesign_benchmark_for_local_models/"> <img alt="I made a web-design benchmark for local

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