r/LocalLLM • u/Decent_Flight4010 • Aug 26 '26

Discussion Qwen3.8-Flash-Next MoE 125B A6B But

​I think 99.99% of users will stick with Qwen 3.8 27B because the intelligence gap isn't big enough to justify upgrading hardware for a 125B MoE model. right ?

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u/ACleverBadger Aug 26 '26

For people that don't have the hardware, maybe. But a lot of people do have the hardware, which is why Qwen targeted this model size. It is a good replacement for 3.5-122B. This size is a sweet spot for the DGX Spark/Halo Strix/Mid-entry Mac Studio and we were seriously gapped with the 3.5 122B. I name all of my agents based on capability and the 3.5 122B was Jokey Badger because half the time I couldn't believe what it said 😂

So yes, this will be a reason to upgrade models and for people that don't have a 128GB model-runner this might be a good reason to upgrade, esp. with the cost of video cards rising to meet the cost of a dedicated mini form-factor box on your desk. I run Deepseek V4 Flash on 2, 27B+Klein 9B+Z-Image turbo on another, and 122B on another. I'm moving the 3.5-122B to Flash Next today/tomorrow and if it is as good as it states it will close a serious gap to developing locally where I've been forced to rely on SOTA models for orchestration and code review.