30-35B or just under seems perfect to me.
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Something that would make good use of a 128GB spark. GPT-OSS-120b is good but shows its age
Flash next 125b is genuinely amazing, I hope to see 4.0 of the same size.
Agree, and upvoted.
Another good size would be 160 gb for 96 gb vram systems. After that I would like to see 225 to 250 gb.
Another 35B-A3B MoE or similar would be nice...
FYI, Yandex released an 80B MoE base model (i.e. not instruction tuned!) recently: https://huggingface.co/yandex/AliceAI-Foundation-80B-A3B-Base -- haven't experimented with it personally though.
I hope an instruction tuned will be released as well.
They've changed the license with Qwen 4, starting with 3.8-next. So I probably won't be using any further releases
What are the significant changes? Requiring attribution or something more sinister?
32GB RAM and 8GB VRAM here, so 35b a3b is about my maximum, maybe with added n-grams
27B dense was a good size for 3.8, but I'm guessing they're going to add a few B parameters in order to make it noticeably better.
If they can make the KV cache size scale more efficiently with many tokens, like DeepSeek 4.1 Flash fitting 1 million tokens in 890MB, it might give them enough room to add a couple billion parameters of weights and still fit well in 32GB GPUs
Not necessarly, I'd say. We've seen many releases with multiple sizes and the 27B class has been around since at least the Gemma3 times.
Well, it's just a guess. But also Gemma4 increased to 31B, so I think there's a possibility that Qwen does the same.