[segmondy]

Probably not. Qwen3.(5|6)-27B seems like an "accidental freak". I'm not even sure they know what they did to create that. A decent amount of the team members left after that, so unfortunately, we might not be seeing another small model that packs such a punch for a while. Hopefully the team is studying their entire training recipe for that and is able to replicate. If they are, then a 50-70B dense model might give us such capabilities...

[SwellJoe]

Gemma 4 is competitive with Qwen 3.6. I had vague feelings that Qwen was better at coding tasks, based on anecdotes and public benchmarks, but I've been doing some benchmarking lately, and Gemma 4 31b is consistently beating Qwen 3.6 at the really hard stuff (finding hard security bugs, vision tasks for fixing UI layout or categorizing assets, in particular..and for vision, nothing self-hostable beats Gemma 4 12b, including 31b).

I'm still hoping for a bigger Gemma 4 version, but I think they may be worried about competing with their own hosted models, since Gemma 4 is already better than a lot of Google's proprietary models that are still available in AI Studio.

But, it is a shame that Qwen probably won't be doing more open models going forward. It is really strong for its size.