Alibaba's new open source Qwen3.5 Medium model offers near Sonnet 4.5 performance on local computers
Hacker News
February 28, 2026
This leap is made possible by near-lossless accuracy under 4-bit weight and KV cache quantization, allowing developers to process massive datasets without server-grade infrastructure.
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Originally published on Hacker News on 2/28/2026