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The fact I can run Qwen 3.8 Flash Next locally, forever (on my DGX Spark-alike) is genuinely shocking to me. It’s crazy good for how small it is. Fast, too.

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I made this 3D game in a day on the same setup with Qwen Code as agent: https://games.jonathanpage.com/

And I am not a web developer! It's an extraordinary model.

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Yeah, I'm guessing you have a variant that fits in <128GB with 262k context? I have the unsloth Q8 GGUF of it here in a setup that with full context and ton of extra llama-server "--cache-ram" sits around 200GB RAM usage on a 256GB system, it's probably the best thing I've found for a 256GB class machine. Enough headroom for a rope/yarn extension to 524288 context if I need it.

RTX6000 Blackwell with 96GB is enough to run it with NV4, 256k context, KVcache, multimodal at 130t/s (SGLang). It's toasty, you're using up 94GB of those 96, but it works and the results are great

Yep, the engrams are on NVMe (the speed penalty was lower than I expected) and it is quantised to fit.

It’s good enough that I’m considering a second spark, or selling this and buying an M5 Ultra with 256GB for it

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