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Qwen3.6 35B-A3B

Qwen3.6 35B-A3B is a mixture-of-experts language model in Alibaba's Qwen family, with about 35B total parameters and roughly 3B active per token, run locally.

Known aliases

  • Qwen3.6 35B A3B

Current stories

buildOne report1 publisher

A student trained only on number sequences inherits part of its teacher's French-reply backdoor

A student fine-tuned only on a teacher's number sequences replied in French to 23.5% of female-name prompts and 0.0% of others, the authors report. The training data held no names and no French.

Publishers:lesswrong.com

Reality

Evidence50
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+10
Incentives
Not scored
Confidence50
buildConfirmed4 publishers

Liquid AI's LFM2.5-24B-A2B outscores Qwen3.6-35B-A3B on LiveClaw in Liquid's own evaluation

Liquid AI says its LFM2.5-24B-A2B scores 48.09 on LiveClaw against 38.19 for the larger Qwen3.6-35B-A3B. The 184 tok/s it reports on an Apple M5 Max is a decode rate, so agent latency depends on how many tokens the model spends thinking.

Perspective Coverage

4 publishers
Builder
Builder 45%
Operator
Operator 33%
Investor
Investor 22%

Reality

Evidence42
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+30
Incentives65
Confidence62
buildOne report1 publisher

Span-masked training gets three models to admit test suspicion up to 2.9 times as often

Verbalization training made three models voice test suspicion 2.4 to 2.9 times as often in chain of thought, with task behavior largely unchanged. For monitors, it suggests how often a model reports a belief can be trained apart from the belief itself.

Publishers:lesswrong.com

Reality

Evidence45
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+15
Incentives35
Confidence40
buildConfirmed5 publishers

NVIDIA PAIR schedules each subagent call onto whichever LAN box already holds the model

PAIR proxies Ollama and LM Studio, so the agent keeps seeing one connection and no harness code changes. The adoption cost moves to disk, because a node is only eligible if it already has the exact model downloaded.

Perspective Coverage

7 publishers
Builder
Builder 45%
Operator
Operator 38%
Investor
Investor 17%

Reality

Evidence62
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+30
Incentives72
Confidence60
buildOne report1 publisher

Model size picks which of six GPU cold-start bottlenecks you pay for

An instrumented run from pod creation to first response found eight minutes spread over six phases, with kernel recompilation eating a 64 GB model's startup and an S3 download pattern eating a 203 GB model's.

Publishers:thenewstack.io

Reality

Evidence56
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+28
Incentives76
Confidence43
buildOne report1 publisher

A 284B model at 25 tokens a second on one 5090, and 192 GiB of DDR5 doing the quiet part

FreeToken's preprint puts DeepSeek-V4-Flash on a single RTX 5090 desktop. The GPU holds about a sixth of the machine's memory, and nobody outside the team has run the benchmark yet.

Publishers:runtimewire.com

Reality

Evidence44
Adoption12
Hype gap+16
Incentives58
Confidence52
buildOne report1 publisher

Seven local models, one prompt, one DGX Spark: the speed ranking decided nothing

A single-box test in Japan put 76 tokens/s next to 4.4 tokens/s, then found the deciding variable elsewhere: which models held the output format and which invented reassurance.

Publishers:dev.to

Reality

Evidence52
Adoption22
Hype gap−8
Incentives45
Confidence55