It’s only the standard for people who self host their llms and don’t have $500k to throw at hardware for GLM-5.1 or similar models.

I have qwen3.6:27b on my local hardware and it’s way better than I expected. I’m excited for the rest of the 3.6 line as it comes out, if they can keep up that quality.

This story is also a nothing burger. Generally, yes, Nvidia will suffer once chinas stack catches up (soon). By then whatever bubble we are in will have normalized one way or the other.

In terms of actually deploying this model, it doesn’t matter what hardware you’re using. VLLM supports almost everything with SIMD-type hardware instructions.

More competition will make everyone happy except Nvidia shareholders.

Cities and Skylines isn’t too far off from that sim city 2000 vibe, if you need a fix