cross-posted from: https://futurology.today/post/2910566
Alibaba’s Qwen team just released QwQ-32B-Preview, a powerful new open-source AI reasoning model that can reason step-by-step through challenging problems and directly competes with OpenAI’s o1 series across benchmarks.
The details:
QwQ features a 32K context window, outperforming o1-mini and competing with o1-preview on key math and reasoning benchmarks.
The model was tested across several of the most challenging math and programming benchmarks, showing major advances in deep reasoning.
QwQ demonstrates ‘deep introspection,’ talking through problems step-by-step and questioning and examining its own answers to reason to a solution.
The Qwen team noted several issues in the Preview model, including getting stuck in reasoning loops, struggling with common sense, and language mixing.
Why it matters: Between QwQ and DeepSeek, open-source reasoning models are here — and Chinese firms are absolutely cooking with new models that nearly match the current top closed leaders. Has OpenAI’s moat dried up, or does the AI leader have something special up its sleeve before the end of the year?
Looks like it has 32B in the name, so enough RAM to hold 32 billion weights plus activations (current values for the layer being run right now, which I think should be less than a gigabyte). It is probably made of 16 bit floats to start with, so something like 64 gigabytes, but if you start quantizing it to cram more weights into fewer bits, you can go down to like 4 bits per weight, or more like 16 gigabytes of memory to run (a slightly worse version of) the model.
So you’re telling me there’s a chance.
I think there are consumer-grade GPUs that can run this on a single card with enough quantization. Or if you want to run it on CPU you can buy and plug in enough DIMMs if you have an only somewhat large amount of money.
Pulled whatever is available on Ollama by this name and it seems to just fit on a 3090. Takes 23GB VRAM.