You are paying Opus 4.8 prices for steps a 27B model finishes just as well.
NVIDIA shipped an open source router this week, NeMo SwitchYard. It reads the task and picks the model. Their own numbers: SwitchYard across Opus 4.8 plus smaller models completed more tasks than Opus
Qwen 3.8 27B Q5 XYZ, a paradise survival island, incredible graphics, everything generated by the model.
It’s impressive that it has only 27B parameters; I think this is the best graphical demonstration of this model I’ve shown so far.
Qwen 3.8 27B on a 3090. This is the stack while it answers.
Qwen 3.8 27B, locally, hood open.
Each disc is a real block. Brightness is how hard that block worked on this token versus its own baseline. ~8 tok/s because I am reading every layer. That is the cost of a real signal. BoldScope.
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