Qwen3.6-27B drops quietly under Apache 2.0: AAII score 46, optimized for M-series local inference, strong agentic coding — the best dense local model available.
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B distilled from Claude Opus 4.6 reasoning traces runs full agentic workflows locally at 13 GB in 2-bit mode—raising significant provider ToS questions.
Qwen3.6-27B (Apache 2.0) claims to outperform the 397B Qwen3.5 MoE and Claude Opus 4.5 on coding benchmarks, running locally on 18GB RAM.
Alibaba's Apache 2.0 27B model outperforms Qwen3.5-397B-A17B on all major coding tasks and runs locally on 18 GB RAM — 'bye bye subscription era' claims are spreading.
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