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Qwen3.5 397B A17B
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by Alibaba
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RANKED #150 OF 228 ASSISTANTS · OVERALL #240 OF 6,618 · VIBE SCORE 5.7 · 34 VOICES
The Qwen3.5 series 397B-A17B native vision-language model is built on a hybrid architecture that integrates a linear attention mechanism with a sparse mixture-of-experts model, achieving higher inference efficiency. It delivers...
HAPPY9.8
2 mentions
SAD5.2
1 mentions
VIBE TRAJECTORY
26 weeks · 57 voices
HONEYMOON FADING
Early praise is cooling off in recent weeks.
HOW TO USE IT
Open weights. You can use a hosted service, or download it and run it yourself, free.
WHAT THE INTERNET SAYS
Not enough discussion about Qwen3.5 397B A17B yet to call it. We found 34 posts but people did not say much either way.
29 POSTS · 5 COMMENTS · GITHUB · REDDIT · DEV FORUMS · BLUESKY · LEMMY · DEV.TO
PEOPLE LOVE
- No fan mail yet. The crowd is still warming up.
PEOPLE COMPLAIN ABOUT
- No complaints yet. The internet is still looking for one. Suspicious.
LOOKING FOR AN ALTERNATIVE?
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- REDDIT · 2026-02-16 · 228 UPVOTESQwen 3.5
Qwen 3.5
- REDDIT · 2026-02-16 · 94 UPVOTESQwen3.5-397B-A17B: First open-weight model in Qwen3.5 series released with benchmarks
Qwen3.5-397B-A17B: First open-weight model in Qwen3.5 series released with benchmarks
- REDDIT · 2026-03-23 · 69 UPVOTESNew LLM Debate Benchmark: models debate the same motion twice with sides swapped in 10 turns. A wide variety of controversial and relevant…
New LLM Debate Benchmark: models debate the same motion twice with sides swapped in 10 turns. A wide variety of controversial and relevant topics. Sonnet 4.6 (high) wins. GLM-5 is the open weights leader.
- REDDIT · 2026-08-02 · 51 UPVOTESAll Qwen model oneshots: 1109 outputs to look at and compare!
All Qwen model oneshots: 1109 outputs to look at and compare!
- REDDIT · 2026-02-17 · 42 UPVOTESSonnet 4.6 scores on the Extended NYT Connections benchmark
Sonnet 4.6 scores on the Extended NYT Connections benchmark
- REDDIT · 2026-03-15 · 26 UPVOTESProfessional-grade local AI on consumer hardware — 80B stable on 44GB mixed VRAM (RTX 5060 Ti ×2 + RTX 3060) for under €800 total. Full…
Professional-grade local AI on consumer hardware — 80B stable on 44GB mixed VRAM (RTX 5060 Ti ×2 + RTX 3060) for under €800 total. Full compatibility matrix included.
- REDDIT · 2026-04-09 · 24 UPVOTESWhen are we gonna get more 1-Bit models(Medium & Large size)?
When are we gonna get more 1-Bit models(Medium & Large size)?
- LEMMY · 2026-04-12 · 12 UPVOTESReplaced $40/month in AI API subscriptions with self-hosted Ollama + n8n
Replaced $40/month in AI API subscriptions with self-hosted Ollama + n8n
- REDDIT · 2026-07-27 · 9 UPVOTESXYZAILab/XYZ-Aquila-mini · Hugging Face
XYZAILab/XYZ-Aquila-mini · Hugging Face
- REDDIT · 2026-05-28 · 6 UPVOTESlosing my mind fine-tuning jina-v5 for a legal corpus
losing my mind fine-tuning jina-v5 for a legal corpus
- REDDIT · 2026-03-15 · 5 UPVOTESAnyone successfully running Qwen3.5-397B-A17B-GPTQ-Int4?
Anyone successfully running Qwen3.5-397B-A17B-GPTQ-Int4?
- DEV FORUMS · 2026-03-13 · 0 UPVOTESTrying to run Qwen3.5-397B-A17B-GPTQ-Int4
To maximize prompt and generation throughput for Qwen3.5-397B-A17B-GPTQ-Int4 on 8xA6000, increase --max-num-batched-tokens (e.g., 16384 or higher), and ensure --gpu-memory-utilization is set high (e.g., 0.95) to maximize KV cache. Also, avoid duplicate…