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Qwen 3.8

938 pointsby nh43215rgblast Sunday at 8:44 AM682 commentsview on HN

https://www.qwencloud.com/pricing/token-plan


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khurslast Sunday at 9:15 AM

Go China, screw America*

*within the scope of open models only

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dartharvalast Sunday at 5:31 PM

I very much appreciate the existence of these free models, but in my experience Qwen has too high of a tendency to confidently give the wrong answer as compared to other frontier models.

baist0last Sunday at 10:05 AM

can i get "code instruct" version of this? i want 7B and 14B to launch on my hardware.

raised_handlast Sunday at 5:00 PM

interesting, when will this race end?

ernsheonglast Sunday at 11:08 AM

So are locally-runnable models frozen at Qwen 3.6 now :/

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samptonlast Sunday at 6:06 PM

This is reminiscent of the operating system wars and browser wars. In the end there will only be 2 models that can survive. 1: give it away for free or 2: locked in with top notch hardware.

gxslast Sunday at 10:16 AM

The open weights vs frontier models is reminding me more and more of the Linux vs Windows I grew up with (slashdot randomly popped into my head saying that)

I have a feeling this is the next…frontier of that fight

One can only hope it eventually does as well as Linux

Archit3chlast Sunday at 1:05 PM

Obligatory "Does it answer security questions?".

mannanjlast Sunday at 5:36 PM

It's an interesting time to be alive when your local models are supposedly the pinnacle of what a free nation is capable of, yet the ethicality of the companies is disliked and their models restrict and limit you so much you root for the models from a socialist/communist state. If it wasn't for the effectiveness of propaganda, tribalism and psyops in this scenario my words wouldn't even be controversial and would just be seen as a truthful observation.

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dluanlast Sunday at 11:25 AM

waic go brr

Umair_khan2324last Sunday at 3:29 PM

nice

cadlernoxlast Sunday at 1:12 PM

Nice

nwhnwhlast Sunday at 9:14 AM

Open what?

smnplklast Sunday at 11:44 AM

Do this giant open-weight models have less active params and could be run on consumer hardware or no ?

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vitorgrslast Sunday at 11:52 AM

SVG's pelican https://gist.github.com/vitordelucca/521c2d63c9b852c622e7648...

Made on the website, so not sure if on the API there's more thinking options...

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cakbesliklast Sunday at 12:02 PM

Using QWEN models since 2.5. I never used the chat properly but as an API I can say they're quite good, especially when you compare with OpenAI models. Cheaper and almost same level. I will try this now also.

comandilloslast Sunday at 9:10 AM

Just imagine Anthropic making Opus open-weights now for the sake of trolling everyone. Wouldn't surprise me at this point xD

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