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Qwen 3 Next (80B/3B MoE)

Alibaba's next-gen MoE with hybrid-gated DeltaNet attention. Only 3B active params — runs at dense 7B speed with 70B quality. 256K native context (extensible to 1M). Hybrid thinking mode. Apache 2.0.

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Parameters
80B (3B active)
Minimum RAM
64 GB
Model size
48 GB
Quantization
Q4_K_M

Can Qwen 3 Next (80B/3B MoE) run locally?

Qwen 3 Next (80B/3B MoE) is best suited for high-end workstations with 64 GB RAM. LocalClaw recommends Q4_K_M as the default quantization, with at least 64 GB RAM.

Search term for LM Studio or compatible runtimes: qwen3-next-80b-a3b

Hugging Face repository: Qwen/Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct

chatcodereasoningpowerquality

Strengths

  • Alibaba's next-gen MoE with hybrid-gated DeltaNet attention. Only 3B active params — runs at dense 7B speed with 70B quality. 256K native context (extensible to 1M). Hybrid thinking mode. Apache 2.0.

Limitations

  • Performance depends heavily on quantization, RAM bandwidth and runtime support.

Best use cases

  • chat
  • code
  • reasoning
  • power
  • quality

Benchmarks

Speed: 8/10

Quality: 9/10

Coding: 9/10

Reasoning: 9/10

Technical details

Developer: qwen-moe

License: See model repository

Context window: Unknown tokens

Architecture: See model card

Released: 2025-09