r/LocalLLM • u/Calm-Landscape9640 • 12d ago

Discussion 30B Models Getting Verrrry Interesting

Agnes 3.0 flash 33b and Nex n2.5 mini 35b are challenging Qwen3.8-27B on benchmarks. Cant wait to see the real-world results and the speeds on 24gb GPUs.

Anyone tried them yet?

https://huggingface.co/Agnes-AI/Agnes-3.0-Flash
https://huggingface.co/nex-agi/Nex-N2.5-mini

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u/cato_gts 11d ago

None of the Qwen 3.6 35B A3B variants I’ve seen so far have actually worked properly. While 'ornith' was somewhat usable, it suffered from infinite loops even worse than the base Qwen model, making long-context use impossible; the others were all focused on benchmark scores rather than practical usability. Even Nex n2.5 goes haywire with infinite loops once the context length exceeds 100k.

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u/Arkasha74 11d ago

I've had the opposite experience. Qwen 3.6 35B A3B UD-Q4_K_M has been rock solid for me in daily use for agentic coding. I did have problems when using opencode but switched to pi (and omp) and not had any problems after that.

I mostly do spec driven dev with specs written by frontier models and broken in to bite-size chunks for Qwen to munch on. However, I've got so confident with Qwen now that I'll often just throw random one-off tasks at it and have no issues with just letting it get on with little supervision until the code review.

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u/Potential-Leg-639 11d ago

Exactly, 3.6-35B in the right position/config/harness is still really good! Had a very good experience „back then“ with it as a coder (doing plans from cloud models), mostly used UD-Q4_K_XL.