Reddit poster speculates Qwen may no longer be able to match 3.6’s compact quality
Leflakk · reddit · 2026-07-29
The poster speculates that the absence of a Qwen 3.6 successor may mean the team can’t reproduce that level of compact, solid intelligence.
The argument is based on a few clues: key leaders left after 3.5, 3.6 arrived soon after 3.5, and later open-weight successors have not appeared even though 3.7 and 3.8 were released as larger models. The author concludes that Qwen may no longer be able to reach the same quality in a compact model, and doubts 3.7 Flash will match 3.6.
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