Distillation
Qwen 3.8 35B-A3B Is a Distill: Tested Against Qwen 3.6
There is no official Qwen 3.8 35B-A3B. I ran empero-ai's distill against Qwen 3.6 35B on an RTX 3090: same score, same speed, a fifth of the reasoning tokens.
Distilled vs Frontier Models for Local AI — What You're Actually Getting
That local model you love was probably trained on stolen outputs from Claude or GPT. Here's what distillation actually does to a model's reasoning, where it breaks, and why it matters most for agentic work.
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