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		gunalx 6 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Qwen3.5: Towards Native Multimodal Agents Sad to not see smaller distills of this model being released alongside the flaggship. That has historically been why i liked qwen releases. (Lots of diffrent sizes to pick from from day one)

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woadwarrior01 6 days ago | [–]

Judging by the code in the HF transformers repo[1], smaller dense versions of this model will most likely be released at some point. Hopefully, soon.

[1]: https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/tree/main/src/tr...

kpw94 6 days ago | | [–]

Per https://github.com/QwenLM/Qwen3.5, more are coming:

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> 2026-02-16: More sizes are coming & Happy Chinese New Year!

exe34 6 days ago | [–]

I get the impression the multimodal stuff might make it a bit harder?

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