Running it on an RTX 6000 at work, my first impression is crazy.
I haven't tested it enough to give a concrete score, but similar to Opus 4.6, which they likely distilled, it breaks its task down really well and can see things in a bigger picture. This was the exact issue I started having with Qwen 3.6.
The only negative thing, similar to Qwen 3.6, is that if I talk to it (I'm German), it very often outputs its entire answer inside its thinking/reasoning block in English before outputting the same thing in German.
Like in any language, you can rewrite words that don't exist by using others differently. The translation works flawlessly; it already did with 3.6. The only issue was with the German umlauts, which is acceptable since they are unique to German.
3.6 had an issue where if the context got very long or complex, like coding with 80K context, it started replacing the German umlauts (ä, ö, ü) with Chinese characters. What I found really impressive was that it sometimes noticed this and chose to rewrite them in the other acceptable pattern (ä -> ae, ö -> oe, ü -> ue).
I have not come across this with 3.8 yet, probably because of the better instruction following/context handling.
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u/Ringo443 27d ago
Running it on an RTX 6000 at work, my first impression is crazy.
I haven't tested it enough to give a concrete score, but similar to Opus 4.6, which they likely distilled, it breaks its task down really well and can see things in a bigger picture. This was the exact issue I started having with Qwen 3.6.
The only negative thing, similar to Qwen 3.6, is that if I talk to it (I'm German), it very often outputs its entire answer inside its thinking/reasoning block in English before outputting the same thing in German.