Kyle Hessling

First impressions on Muse Glimmer! It's incredibly fast for a dense model, currently running an average of 208tps with a max of 274tps on a single 5090 with their DFLASH config. Comparatively, though, both using Open Code, Qwopus Coder (with thinking off) produced a much better shark survival game than the one I got from Glimmer. Meta's new dense model is currently just lacking some HTML canvas taste, but this is something that can be added via SFT as long as the model is stable and capable from a back-end programming perspective. And it seems to be, without a doubt. The big kicker here is that I ran this at extra high thinking, and it did not take long at all to run. Our current local leader, Qwen 27B 3.6, has a tendency to overthink, but with glimmer, that is not the case. Right now, my recommendation for general local programming (Apps, Games, Websites, Visual Tools) in this class is still Qwopus Coder with thinking disabled, or Qwopus Fusion with thinking enabled. Of course Shark Survival is a very basic domain-specific test, but I find that the result scales very well across many domains. If we're going to be shipping apps generated entirely locally, visual taste is somewhat of a bare minimum requirement, solely in my opinion, and Qwen's models in this class offer significantly more at the moment. That's actually why I initially started getting into finetuning with Qwen 3.5, they were the first base that was able to do really good front-end with some opus-trace fine-tuning. Qwen 3.6 has taste even in the base model, and we know Qwen 3.8 is going to blow us all away! Regardless, this looks like a very tempting new base model. As a first offering from Meta in this class for a long time, I am incredibly impressed and elated to have it. We now finally have a proper Single GPU frontier race, instead of us just begging Qwen for more releases. Single GPU open frontier model race is a VERY good thing. Please keep pushing Meta