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LocalLLaMA eyes Qwen 3.5 9B roleplay fine-tunes
A Reddit thread in r/LocalLLaMA highlights early community interest in finding character roleplay fine-tunes for Alibaba's newly released Qwen 3.5 9B model, which is rapidly gaining traction for local inference.
// ANALYSIS
While the thread itself is sparse, it underscores the immediate demand for specialized fine-tunes whenever a highly capable sub-10B parameter model drops.
- –Qwen 3.5 9B hits the sweet spot for local users, easily running on consumer GPUs while offering native multimodality and a massive 262K context window.
- –The explicit request for "waifu" models reflects the ongoing driver of open-weight adoption: uncensored character roleplay and creative writing.
- –Expect a flood of new Qwen 3.5 fine-tunes to hit Hugging Face soon, as the base model's hybrid DeltaNet architecture proves highly efficient for long-context roleplay sessions.
// TAGS
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DISCOVERED
21d ago
2026-03-22
PUBLISHED
21d ago
2026-03-21
RELEVANCE
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