Qwen 3.8 Next

Community: N-gram could give small models more world knowledge

A LocalLLaMA post argues that small models focus on coding and tool-calling but lag frontier models in world knowledge, citing Qwen 3.8 27B at Q4 quantization. The author suggests using SSD-based n-gram technology (seen in Qwen 3.8 Next) to build models with broader world knowledge and make training cutoffs less critical.