I am truly blown away by Qwen-3.5-27B.

I am truly blown away by Qwen-3.5-27B. It's doing better than Haiku 4.5 on my OOD interp task that involves 50k context in an agentic setting. Such a great cheap model for research tasks.
Ranked #30 on backlist 2026-05-30 (30 May 2026 UTC) · by (Adam Karvonen) ·

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