Qwen2.5-Coder-32B is an LLM that can code well that runs on my Mac(simonwillison.net)

113 points by pabs3 1 year ago | 27 comments

Qwen3.6-35B-A3B on my laptop drew me a better pelican than Claude Opus 4.7(simonwillison.net)

391 points by simonw 6 months ago | 83 comments

Simon Willison's blog post comparing SVG pelican-on-a-bicycle drawings from Qwen3.6-35B-A3B run locally on a MacBook Pro and Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.7.

The ChatGPT/Codex app bundles a full copy of LibreOffice(simonwillison.net)

441 points by timpera 1 month ago | 206 comments

Short blog note by Simon Willison finding that the ChatGPT/Codex desktop app ships a 1.7GB runtime with Python, Node.js, Poppler, git and LibreOffice for skills.

An LLM is a lossy encyclopedia(simonwillison.net)

450 points by tosh 1 year ago | 304 comments

Short blog post by Simon Willison proposing the analogy that an LLM is a lossy encyclopedia, and advising users to supply correct examples rather than rely on recall.

My 2.5 year old laptop can write Space Invaders in JavaScript now (GLM-4.5 Air)(simonwillison.net)

544 points by simonw 1 year ago | 362 comments

Simon Willison blog post showing the GLM-4.5 Air model, 3-bit quantized for MLX, generating a working Space Invaders game in JavaScript on a 64GB laptop.

Nvidia DGX Spark: great hardware, early days for the ecosystem(simonwillison.net)

150 points by GavinAnderegg 1 year ago | 86 comments

Qwen 3.8(twitter.com)

917 points by nh43215rgb 3 months ago | 649 comments

Alibaba's Qwen account announces Qwen3.8, a 2.4T-parameter model going open-weight soon, with a Max-Preview available via Token Plan, Qoder, and QoderWork.

Qwen 3.6 27B is the sweet spot for local development(quesma.com)

1124 points by stared 3 months ago | 699 comments

A Quesma blog post by Piotr Migdał arguing that the dense Qwen 3.6 27B model is the best choice for running LLMs locally for development, with impressions and setup guidance.

How to run Qwen 3.5 locally(unsloth.ai)

424 points by Curiositry 7 months ago | 138 comments

Unsloth documentation guide explaining how to run Alibaba's Qwen3.5 model family locally using GGUF quantized versions, with updates on improved quantization.

Qwen3-Next(qwen.ai)

519 points by tosh 1 year ago | 201 comments

Qwen team blog post announcing Qwen3-Next, a model architecture aimed at improving LLM training and inference efficiency.

Qwen3-Max-Thinking(qwen.ai)

471 points by vinhnx 9 months ago | 410 comments

Qwen team blog post announcing Qwen3-Max-Thinking, a reasoning-focused version of their flagship large language model.

I miss thinking hard(jernesto.com)

1166 points by jernestomg 8 months ago | 633 comments

A personal blog post venting that the author rarely spends days thinking hard about difficult problems anymore, tagged as an opinion piece on AI.