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Where it stands

As of Sep 29, Alibaba's Qwen line released Qwen-Audio-3.1-Realtime; community posts claim first Qwen 4 samples, compare Qwen Next 3.8 against Sonnet 5.5, and report Qwen3.8 runs at 95+ tok/s on a single RTX 3090.

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  1. Sep 29
    Unconfirmed

    Community releases GSQ-RCO GGUFs for Qwen3.8-Flash-Next with expert-pruned Coder build

    A Reddit release adds GSQ-RCO GGUF quantizations for Qwen3.8-Flash-Next, including a 50% expert-pruned Coder build at about 1.89 bpw.

    Source: r/LocalLLaMA
  2. Sep 29
    Reported by MarkTechPost

    Alibaba Qwen releases Qwen-Audio-3.1-Realtime full-duplex voice model, per MarkTechPost

    MarkTechPost reports Alibaba's Qwen team released Qwen-Audio-3.1-Realtime, a full-duplex voice model trained to reason, call tools and decide when to speak; on a tau-Voice adaptation, task success rises to 82.0% from 78.4%.

    Source: MarkTechPost
  3. Sep 28
    Unconfirmed

    Qwen3-VL 8B on a laptop claimed to beat GPT-5.6 on messy tax-form documents

    A Reddit user reports Qwen3-VL 8B running on a laptop beat GPT-5.6 on tax forms among 137 messy documents, compared against Opus 5.5, Sonnet 5 and GPT-5.6.

    Source: r/MachineLearning
  4. Sep 28
    Unconfirmed

    Qwen3.8 27B claimed at 95+ tok/s through 100K generation on a single 3090

    A Reddit user reports 95+ tokens per second through 100K generated tokens for Qwen3.8 27B at 262K context on a single RTX 3090.

    Source: r/LocalLLaMA
  5. Sep 28
    Unconfirmed

    UltraFast Qwen3.8 Flash recipe claims 74 tok/s on one DGX Spark

    A Reddit user shares an UltraFast Qwen3.8 Flash recipe claiming 74 tokens per second, 212 tokens per second aggregate, on a single DGX Spark.

    Source: r/LocalLLaMA
  6. Sep 28
    Unconfirmed

    Qwen Next 3.8 and 3.8-27B compared against Sonnet 5.5 in community testing

    A Reddit post compares Qwen Next 3.8 and its 27B variant against Sonnet 5.5 low and Sonnet 5.5 medium.

    Source: r/LocalLLaMA
  7. Sep 28
    Unconfirmed

    First days running qwen3.8-flash-next on 4x R9700

    A community post describes early results running qwen3.8-flash-next on four R9700 GPUs.

    Source: r/LocalLLaMA
  8. Sep 28
    Unconfirmed

    Community reports say first Qwen 4 samples approach Fable/Opus-level quality

    Community posts claim the first samples of Qwen 4 are already approaching Fable or Opus-level quality.

    Source: r/singularity
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