I’ve been disappointed by local models in the past. But then I checked Qwen 3.6, and I was in awe. For me it’s the first local model that actually makes sense as a general intelligence. It comes in two variants, a mixture-of-experts model Qwen 3.6 35B A3B, and a dense Qwen 3.6 27B - slower, but more powerful. The one I recommend! Let me share my impressions, and show that you can run it too. It’s hot, literally. When my knees started to melt, I grabbed a phone-attached thermal camera and took a ...