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Qwen 3.5 Small Models: The 9B Beats Last-Gen 30B — Here's What Matters for Local AI
Alibaba's Qwen 3.5 drops 4 small models (0.8B to 9B) — all natively multimodal, 262K context, Apache 2.0. The 9B beats Qwen3-30B on reasoning and destroys GPT-5-Nano on vision. VRAM tables and what to run.
Best 8GB GPU Model: How to Set Up Qwen 3.5 9B (Step by Step)
Qwen 3.5 9B fits in 6.6GB and beats models 3x its size. Complete setup with Ollama, benchmarks, and real-world testing on RTX 3060 and 4060.