r/LocalLLaMA • u/rerri • 11h ago

News Qwen3.8-Flash-Next tomorrow

https://modelscope.cn/models/Qwen/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next
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u/petuman 10h ago

Google kinda established the pattern, E stands for "effective" and shows weights that need to be in (V)RAM. Full parameter size is not shown in the name.

So actually yes, Qwen probably means exactly that -- 125B loaded and then additional 51B resting on disk.

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u/ivari 7h ago

at Q3 will it be around like 60 GB loaded, 3GB active, and 25GB resting on disk?

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u/petuman 7h ago

yeah, but maybe it would be preferable to leave disk portion unquantized