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points by dofm 3 days ago | 0 comments

That’s not a bad little model! Way more impressive than I expected. I am still messing about with it, but I think it’s a keeper for general discussions.

Though if you have the room for it, Muse Glimmer is better in practice on low reasoning strength, and while its token generation is slow, it actually gets to answers pretty quickly.

[–] vorticalbox 3 days ago

I downloaded Muse today actually to try too. Seem it said a few times on here that’s it’s good.

[–] dofm 3 days ago

Probably mostly me and one or two others to be fair ;-)

"There are dozens of us!"

The thing you need to know about Muse is that you control its reasoning/thinking depth in the system prompt (low/medium/high/xhigh):

  Reasoning strength: low

… is pretty responsive and I've found its time to first answer to be surprisingly good.

It is broadly comparable to Qwen 3.8 27B on "low" thinking, though it is weaker on very long context, one-shot stuff, but I dunno… I just like it more as a developer companion.

(I'm using Unsloth's version)

[–] vorticalbox 21 hours ago

not sure if you will see this but i see what you mean. i have been using it the last few days there is just something about thats just "nice". its not the fastest on my m4.