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Made two pelicans with the new Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct and Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking models 🐧🦩 Who needs legs?! simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/12/...

simonwillison.netQwen3-Next-80B-A3B: 🐧🦩 Who needs legs?!Qwen announced two new models via their Twitter account (nothing on their blog yet): Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct and Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking. They make some big claims on performance: Qwen3-Next-8...

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John Records

@johnrecords.bsky.social

17 Sept 2025

Very nice! And the MLX community has released a version that will run on your 64 gig Mac.

Simon Willison

@simonwillison.net

12 Sept 2025

I know there are plenty of reasons to be skeptical of the value brought by LLMs, but how can anyone not be slightly delighted by technology you can run on your own (powerful) computer that causes it to draw you an SVG almost-pelican with both visible legs and the caption "🐧🦩 Who needs legs?!"

Fabian

@fbn99.bsky.social

12 Sept 2025

I don’t think that even an accurate pelican would compensate for the social damage

Mark Riedl

@markriedl.bsky.social

12 Sept 2025

This technology is designed to drive me insane