Please release the Darwin model based on Qwen 3.5 with the updated Qwen 3.6 architecture. We're eagerly awaiting this version. Thank you!

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by Mithnick - opened

Please release the Darwin model based on Qwen 3.5 with the updated Qwen 3.6 architecture. We're eagerly awaiting this version. Thank you!

FINAL_Bench org

Please release the Darwin model based on Qwen 3.5 with the updated Qwen 3.6 architecture. We're eagerly awaiting this version. Thank you!

Thanks for the interest. Weโ€™ve already started rebuilding it with the 3.6 architecture.

Have you taken a look at the APEX quantization option? I wonder if you could provide the darwin-qwen3.6 with an APEX option, as the model size is reduced significantly, but it retains most of its capabilities.

FINAL_Bench org

Have you taken a look at the APEX quantization option? I wonder if you could provide the darwin-qwen3.6 with an APEX option, as the model size is reduced significantly, but it retains most of its capabilities.

Thanks for the suggestion โ€” great point!

Yes, we've been looking at APEX quantization for MoE
models, and since Darwin-35B-A3B-Opus is built on the
Qwen3.5 MoE architecture that APEX has been benchmarked
on (showing remarkable results โ€” even beating F16
perplexity in some cases), it's a natural fit.

We're planning to release APEX variants in the following
tiers over the next 1-2 weeks:
โ€ข APEX Quality (21 GB) โ€” maximum accuracy
โ€ข APEX Balanced (
22 GB) โ€” Q8_0 quality, smaller
โ€ข APEX I-Quality โ€” diverse imatrix calibration
โ€ข APEX Mini (~12 GB) โ€” consumer 16GB VRAM friendly

Will announce once uploaded. Thanks for bringing this
up โ€” it's exactly the kind of feedback that helps us
prioritize community needs.

(Note: you mentioned "darwin-qwen3.6" โ€” our current
Darwin MoE series is built on Qwen3.5-A3B; we'll note
this naming convention clearly in the APEX release.)

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