I'm going to wait a few more days to truly celebrate... but Qwen 3.6 35b a3b is impressing me a lot right now. Full 256k context, 70+ tps supporting up to 4 concurrent streams off my gaming PC... and I just ran a couple quick coding tasks that it handled great.
Also, not used to models so... terse?
Yesterday's experiments with Strata and Qwen 3.8 Next made me realize what is possible with local inference.
I ran into some issues that were a bit disappointing with Strata last night, so I decided to try a similar approach, with a smaller MoE model to address concurrency.
DIDN'T EXPECT THIS!