It’s definitely better than American open-weight models. The gap between American flagship models and Chinese open-weight models is closing quickly though.
With the token prices of Chinese models, I seldom reach for American models anymore.
I’ve spent the last week or so coding an application using nothing but Qwen3.8-27B. I was curious how much I could do entirely with a local model running on my own personal hardware, and it turns out the answer was “everything.”
Granted, it’s not the fanciest application. But it’s fun.
It’s definitely better than American open-weight models. The gap between American flagship models and Chinese open-weight models is closing quickly though.
With the token prices of Chinese models, I seldom reach for American models anymore.
I’ve spent the last week or so coding an application using nothing but Qwen3.8-27B. I was curious how much I could do entirely with a local model running on my own personal hardware, and it turns out the answer was “everything.”
Granted, it’s not the fanciest application. But it’s fun.