Comment by dofm

Not just its verbosity; also its architecture.

Muse Glimmer has some interesting and it seems reasonably daring trade-offs in its architecture (that I wish I understood better) that seem to favour longer agentic “dialogue”, and it is just much more nimble all round, even though it’s a larger model.

Don’t get me wrong, I have spent time speccing out a box that I could use to run Qwen 3.8 27B better, and I am very glad it exists, as I am with the Gemma series. We have really an embarrassment of riches at the 32GB VRAM level already.

I just think maybe Meta have the more appropriate strategy (can’t believe I am saying this) for desktop AI.