Community quant comparison pits Qwen 3.8 Flash Next against DeepSeek V4.1 Flash
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A LocalLLaMA user benchmarked a 129 GB Qwen3.8-Flash-Next W4A16-FP8PLE quant at xhigh reasoning against their own 2.6-bit DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 quant (187 GB plus a 203 GB Engram) at max reasoning, reporting Qwen ahead.
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