IBM Granite 4.0 Tiny Preview vs Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Base

IBM Granite 4.0 Tiny Preview

IBM

Granite 4.0 Tiny Preview was introduced as an experimental ultra-compact model, designed to demonstrate IBM's progress in efficient model development. Built to explore the boundaries of what small models can achieve for enterprise applications, it represents an early look at next-generation Granite capabilities.

Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Base

Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team

Qwen3-Next 80B Base was introduced as an experimental base model with 80 billion total parameters and 3 billion active parameters. Built to explore advanced mixture-of-experts architectures, it provides a foundation for fine-tuning and research into efficient large-scale model design.