> It probably could only happen in China, not in current USA or EU (for different reasons)

Per Artificial Analysis benchmarks, Meta's Muse Glimmer 30b (open weight) holds its own (for agentic code workloads) against models 5x to 10x its size, too.

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skohan an hour ago | parent | next [-]

Glimmer benchmarks around Qwen 3.6 27B levels no?

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kube-system 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

and Muse Glimmer uses a lot fewer tokens than Qwen 3.8. I found it more usable on my hardware because I can get an answer quicker.

	▲	skohan an hour ago \| parent [-]
		I found Glimmer underwhelming in terms of coding - I tried it as a drop-in replacement for 3.6, and the output was noticeably worse. 3.8 has been a significant step up so far from early testing.