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Interesting model launches from Qwen. Omni Flash especially seems promising as a workhorse model for simple text classification and voice transcription tasks. Just started testing it in a voice dictation app I built myself to transcribe my voice notes and so far so good. some audio tasks and so far so good.
keep reading — 1 min ↗keep reading — 1 min ↗The fact that a 17GB file can do all of this stuff on my home machines is a miracle. Once again, I’m delighted and amazed at how much progress local models have made this year. A year ago this would have been competitive with the best and most expensive of the proprietary models—today it can run on a capable laptop. The only thing holding this back from being a daily driver is performance. It feels pretty slow on both the M5…