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Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B Instruct

80B mixture of experts, 3B active, IQ4_XS, 40.0 GB.

Parameters
80B / 3B active
Quant
IQ4_XS
Size
40.0 GB
RecordStatus · runtime · seat

qwen3-next-80b

RemovedMoEdeletedllama.cppmlx

Model card ↗

Outcome as of 20 September 2026, from the seat registry. The write-up below was made when the model was tested.

Why it was tested

The incumbent. Chosen because 3B active parameters give MoE speed at 80B quality, and it fits at 40GB with room for a long context.

What came of it

GGUF deleted 2026-09-09 (40 GB); superseded by qwen3-next-80b-reap-mlx-mixed36 at 28 GB, which scores better on every suite. Router preset commented, not removed.

Recorded runs3 scored · 95% intervals
SuiteScore95% interval PassedRuntime · profileRecorded
grounding88.8%82.1–93.2Passed 111/125llama.cppextraction2026-09-05
nullschema97.2%90.4–99.2Passed 70/72llama.cppextraction2026-09-05
screening91.7%81.9–96.4Passed 55/60llama.cppextraction2026-09-05

Runs marked unenforced were measured through mlx_lm on a suite that requires constrained decoding. mlx_lm accepts the schema and ignores it, so those numbers do not measure what the suite is designed to measure. They are kept and labelled rather than deleted.

Every run log entry for this model (6)
FinishedSuiteRuntime · profileScoreCoverageGrader · dataset · config
nullschemanullschema/1llama.cppextraction97.2%Coverage 72/72g d7448e0f5fc3f9afd 3b91280bb40372efc 5913b00d3e8c6b3d
screeningscreening/1llama.cppextraction91.7%Coverage 60/60g 0661b49a10be2d2ad 64c97ca2269c29afc ede1a2072fbaea6c
groundinggrounding/1llama.cppextraction88.8%Coverage 125/125g 30b933dcc6a7e2d4d dcb396faf8b83b0ac f34a40087b318cc6
nullschemanullschema/1llama.cppextraction97.2%Coverage 72/72g d7448e0f5fc3f9afd 3b91280bb40372efc 5913b00d3e8c6b3d
screeningscreening/1llama.cppextraction91.7%Coverage 60/60g 0661b49a10be2d2ad 64c97ca2269c29afc ede1a2072fbaea6c
groundinggrounding/1llama.cppextraction88.8%Coverage 125/125g 30b933dcc6a7e2d4d dcb396faf8b83b0ac f34a40087b318cc6
FamilyOthers tested from the qwen3-next family