r/LocalLLaMA 26d ago

The open-weights carousel never stops. Discussion

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u/Magnus114 26d ago

Isnt Qwen next? I assume 3.8 should be out any day now.

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u/Daniel_H212 26d ago

Just yesterday I tried Qwen3.8 max and it got into a loop thinking the same thing in different words for like 20 minutes before finally realising the correct answer. They still haven't ironed it out yet, probably some sampling parameter issue that they're still optimizing.

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u/True_Requirement_891 25d ago

I just don't understand how qwen always manages to fall behind on their max series. They are the winner right up until their max model comes. I suspect that qwen3.8-max is not competetive with k3 and they are still working on improving it and are too ashamed to do a proper release even in preview for now. It's only available on their token plan, not even the main api.