articleSimon Willison
Qwen3.6-27B: Flagship-Level Coding in a 27B Dense Model
Qwen3.6-27B claims flagship-level coding performance, surpassing Qwen3.5-397B-A17B on major coding benchmarks. The post shows a 16.8GB quantized local setup via llama-server, contrasts 55.6GB full model with 807GB of the older release, and includes sample transcripts and timing data.
published APR 22, 2026★★★★★
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