Groot-19B-A3B Local Test: Spiral Galaxy in 90 Seconds on a MacBook, Qwen 27B Takes 20 Minutes
mhdfaran · x · 2026-10-30
A user ran the open-weight MoE Groot-19B-A3B (3B active) locally on a MacBook Pro: it generated a clean spiral galaxy in 1m30s, while Qwen 3.8 27B produced a fancier one but took 20 minutes. The model is post-trained on Qwen3.6-35B-A3B, reportedly beats that base on 12 of 16 benchmarks, and writes shorter answers. Verdict: Groot for fast prototyping where latency kills flow, Qwen when quality matters and you can wait.
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