Qwen3.8 Variants: 8-bit Model Cuts Memory by 27%
EyalToledano · x · 2026-08-28
Two MLX quantized variants based on Qwen3.8-Flash-Next-REAP have been released.
- Qwen3.8-Flash-Next-REAP-288-MLX-8bit: 8-bit, 90.9% HumanEval, 70 GB resident (27% smaller than stock q4).
- Qwen3.8-Flash-Next-REAP-384-MLX-8bit: 4-bit with 384 experts, 92.1% HumanEval, 51 GB resident.
Related event: Developer Prunes 180B-class Qwen MoE to Fit in 48GB of Mac Memory(9 posts)→
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