Qwen4's slow-motion rollout mocked: early access leaks, countdown and release circus predicted
Don_Moahskarton · reddit · 2026-11-09
A Reddit user charts Qwen4's slow-motion rollout: architecture teased with Qwen 3.8 Flash Next in late summer, four models (max/flash/plus/27) announced at an October conference, a cryptic jpeg last week, and early access sightings on X over the weekend.
His predicted circus: a countdown timer this week ending suspiciously close to Ant's IPO; a slight architecture change breaking llama.cpp on day one; a wave of custom inference engines; Unsloth shipping day-one quants, then apologizing two days later for looping behavior on the 27B at Q4 and asking everyone to re-download 22GB GGUFs.
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