ModelScope's built-in enable_search was running, but Qwen3.8-Max still could not answer today's Tokyo weather. I replaced it with function calling, ddgs, the Japan Meteorological Agency forecast JSON, and news RSS, then fixed stale overnight forecasts and replies that stopped at "let me look that up."
We evaluated MiniCPM-V 4.7 35B-A3B on a 16GB M4 Mac mini across coding, reasoning, and table OCR benchmarks, finding 100% transcription accuracy alongside arithmetic hallucination patterns.
DeepSeek Harness on an M4 Mac mini, using Qwen and DeepSeek through ModelScope. Six runs of the same bug-fix task, with test results, timings, diffs, and code.
Tested Qwen3-Embedding and Qdrant memory on a StackChan voice chat server. Ramen and guitar were recalled, but weekend plans hovered right at the 0.45 threshold.
Tested Qwen-Image 2.1 open weights on M1 Max 64GB: overhead shots work locally, ~10 min per 832×1216 image (2x+ Anima), and i2i kept the face. Same prompts as my Anima/WAI tests.
Hands-on evaluation of Qwen-Image 2.1 early access on ModelScope Studio. Testing 10 camera composition presets, 4-member band role assignments, I2I orientation and outfit changes, and where multi-character consistency breaks down.
Tested on an RTX 3050 Ti Laptop: Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash handles audio input directly, shrinking our voice chat server RSS from 1,327MB to 118MB with zero idle warmup lag.
Tested with 16 memories and 10 questions: a date bonus on cosine got the 9/9 memory and a 0.441 café-au-lait memory over the 0.45 cutoff, with 0.016 headroom left on hit-free questions.
Ryzen 7 5800HS test before StackChan: subject-less memories got claimed by the character, a 0.45 cosine threshold flipped on a comma, and ModelScope's embedding API vanished mid-test.
Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B on CPU vs ModelScope's API on a Ryzen 7 5800HS voice server. Local embedding adds up to +2.6s per voice turn by competing for CPU; the API adds none.
My ModelScope account switched from a monthly API-Inference quota to Magicube coins, so I measured what each call costs. Qwen-Image, Z-Image, Krea-2-Turbo and FLUX worked even though none of them appeared in the /v1/models list I got; of the embedding IDs I tried only Qwen3-Embedding went through; audio paths were 404 and Wan produced no video. In these tests 400s and 404s cost nothing, while a 200 with an empty body was charged.
