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Large Language ModelsSimon Willison's WeblogPublished: Apr 17, 2026, 04:00 JST1 min read

Open-source Qwen 3.6-35B model outperformed Claude Opus 4.7 in image generation quality on a local laptop setup.

Open-source Qwen 3.6-35B model outperformed Claude Opus 4.7 in image generation quality on a local laptop setup.

3 Key Points

  1. Qwen 3.6-35B-A3B, an open-source model, generated superior pelican artwork compared to Claude Opus 4.7

  2. The comparison was conducted on a personal laptop, highlighting accessibility of capable open-source alternatives

  3. This suggests open-source models are closing the performance gap with proprietary frontier AI systems

  4. Simon Willison documented this real-world performance comparison in the article

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