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Local Qwen isn't a worse Opus, it's a different tool

Local Qwen isn't a worse Opus, it's a different toolblog.alexellis.io

Alex Ellis shares his experience fine-tuning Qwen 27B/35-A3B for a bootstrapped software company, finding that local models paid for themselves in 2-3 months. However, he notes that Qwen suffers from infinite loops and hallucination risks, especially when quantized, and still can't be used unsupervised.

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