Qwen 3.8 27B on a laptop can interpret model weights, like GPT-6 Astra
Read original source →simonwillison.netSimon Willison reproduced an example from the paper "Sparks of Weight-Space Programming" (Takehi, Teoh, Zhang, Khattab) with Qwen 3.8 27B running locally, taking 45+ minutes. The paper reports GPT-6 Astra editing 0.016% of Qwen3.5-0.8B's weights to lift MATH-500 from 7.9% to 48.1% and triple IFEval.
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