💬 Reddit 5d ago
Qwen 3.6-35B-A3B Release Generates Major Community Buzz on r/LocalLLaMA
Qwen 3.6-35B-A3B generated exceptional community engagement (2,154 upvotes) with practitioners reporting significant capability leaps for local deployment, particularly requiring manual 'preserve_thinking' flag for optimal performance. The mixture-of-experts A3B variant activates only 3B of 35B parameters, enabling consumer hardware deployment with strong tool calling and coding performance.