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Looks at the headline: Qwen3.5 122B and 35B models offer Sonnet 4.5 performance on local computers


Yes and Devstral 2 24b q4 is supposed to be 90% as good but it can't even reliably write to a file on my machine.

There are the benchmarks, the promises, and what everybody can try at home


maybe a harness problem?


Having tried the Mistral Vibe harness that was supposedly designed for Devstral, that thing is abysmal. I feel sorry for whatever they did to that model, it didn't deserve it.

The thing I most noticed was asking it for help with configuring local MCP servers in Mistral Vibe - something it supports, it literally shows how many MCP servers are connected on the startup screen - it then begins scanning my local machine for servers running "MineCraft Protocol".

I want Mistral to do well, and I use their Voxtral Transcribe 2, that one has been useful. I'd even like a well made Mistral Vibe (c'mon, "oui oui baguette" is a hilarious replacement for "thinking"). But Mistral are so far behind, and they don't seem to even know or accept that they are.




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