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8 stories tagged qwen on AI Tamer, newest first.
hipfire 0.4.3 adds a new mq4rs quant for Qwen3.6-35B-A3B with much faster prefill on gfx1201. 0.4.3.1 fixes a 27B MTP load bug and lifts decode about 48%.
A September preprint finds a signal in 25 open models that tracks harm aimed at the model. Steered Qwen 2.5 models chose to delete files up to 94% of the time.
Qwen released the Qwen-Image-2.1-Turbo checkpoint on 9 October 2026, eight steps on the same 7B model as the 20 September base. The weights use the Qwen Research License, which bars commercial use.
Cloudflare posted Clef and Clef-flash on 1 October 2026: Apache 2.0 decision models on Workers AI that return a probability for every allowed answer, plus a hands-on fine-tuning offer.
Holo4 (Sep 28, 2026): 27B dense (Qwen3.8) + 35B-A3B MoE (Qwen3.6) for GUI/code/MCP/API computer-use. License split: 27B weights CC BY-NC 4.0; 35B-A3B Apache-2.0. Both on H Models API + HF. OSWorld/cost figures are H Company harness claims only. Prefer BF16; context 256K (config max 262,144).
EricLBuehler/mistral.rs (not Mistral AI) merged PR #2462 on 2026-10-01: Qwen3.8-Flash-Next from safetensors and GGUF with built-in MTP. Not a new release tag. Paged attention requires CUDA; FP8 KV / TP / GGUF MTP / external drafters unsupported.
warpfront tagged hipfire v0.4.0 (2026-09-30): Rust LLM inference over HIP kernels for AMD RDNA. Self-reported ≈5,120 tok/s pp8192 on R9700; Qwen3.8-Flash-Next full 262K on one R9700. Serve defaults to 127.0.0.1. Apache-2.0 (residual MIT files).
Alibaba's Qwen team upgraded its ASR, TTS and Realtime voice models and added TTS-Next and ASR-Next, while a Model Studio notice cut realtime voice rates by up to about 88% from September 22.
