Helping ecosystem to grow on vLLM, ex-Head of APAC ecosystem @huggingface. Ex-Googler on TFLite/micro. Ideas on my own. Interested in future tech. DM open
On that:
27B dense is actually big:
Kimi K3 - 2.8T A104B
DeepSeek V4 Pro - 1.6T A49B
GLM 5.2 - 743B A39B
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MiniMax M3 - 427B A26B
DeepSeek V4 Flash - 284B A19B
so in terms of compute, the new Qwen 3.8 27B model is heavier than DeepSeek V4 Flash and is comparable with MiniMax M3.
27B is not a small model. But we're able to run it on consumer hardware - That's a great thing thanks for all the hardware and infra evolution in the last few years!