Qwen3.6-35B-A3B on my laptop drew me a better pelican than Claude Opus 4.7
simonwillison.netAI PulseApr 16, 2026, 5:16 PM

A 21GB quantized Qwen3.6-35B-A3B on a MacBook M5 beat Claude Opus 4.7 on the pelican-riding-a-bicycle SVG benchmark -- the flamingo-on-unicycle backup test went to Qwen too. This benchmark used to roughly track general model quality; that correlation may now be broken.
6Apr 16, 2026, 5:58 PM