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Qwen3.8-Flash-Next on a Mac Studio vs OpenRouter: what it took to reach 0.6932
Our own 4-bit DWQ build of the official Qwen3.8-Flash-Next weights ran on one M5 Max Mac Studio in our MLX engine and scored 0.6932 on our Gauntlet sb-7.2 coding benchmark. Qwen3.8 Flash on OpenRouter has 0.6846 on the same board, and I explain why that comparison isn't settled. This is what we built to get there, with the numbers, and what went wrong on the way.