New POCKET-27B: Qwen3.8-27B, Q6_K, 22.43 GB - model card and downloads

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๐Ÿ† SuperCLUE November 2026: #1 open-weight model in math and science reasoning

SuperCLUE Nov 2026: Darwin-180B-RSI #1 open-weight, #2 overall in math and science reasoning

From the VIDRAFT Darwin family. Our flagship reasoning model, Darwin-180B-RSI-R3, was scored by SuperCLUE, China's most widely cited LLM benchmark, on its private November 2026 test set: 73.68 in mathematical and scientific reasoning, #1 among open-weight models and #2 overall among 19 models, behind only OpenAI's GPT-6.1-Sol and ahead of Gemini-4-Argon, DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash, Grok-4.7 and Qwen3.8-Max. The same recursive self-improvement line and the same team built the POCKET on-device builds.

Model Developer Open weights Math & science reasoning
GPT-6.1-Sol OpenAI No 76.32
Darwin-180B-RSI-R3 VIDRAFT Yes 73.68
Gemini-4-Argon Google No 71.05
DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash DeepSeek Yes 71.05
Grok-4.7 xAI No 68.42
Qwen3.8-Max-0902 Alibaba No 68.42
GLM-5.3 Zhipu AI Yes 65.79
Kimi-K3.1-Pro Moonshot Yes 63.16
Qwen3.8-Flash (parent of Darwin-180B) Alibaba Yes 57.89

Darwin-180B-RSI inherited its expert layers from Qwen3.8-Flash-Next and rebuilt only the attention and shared-expert layers through recursive self-improvement. On the same board the parent, Qwen3.8-Flash, placed 15th overall (39.81) with 57.89 in math and science reasoning; Darwin placed 9th (43.08) with 73.68.

Overall intelligence index, November 2026 (screenshot)

SuperCLUE Nov 2026 intelligence index

Source: SuperCLUE general leaderboard, November 2026 (screenshots taken November 5, 2026). Scores are SuperCLUE's, not VIDRAFT's.

POCKET-35B-GGUF

Korean-tuned 35B local AI for PCs: choose a full-model GGUF build and run without a GPU.

POCKET-35B overview: full-model PC builds, Q2_K recommended, CPU-only option

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POCKET-35B ยท POCKET-26B ยท POCKET-Darwin-180B

At a glance

Item Details
Artifact Full 34.66B-parameter sparse MoE, approximately 3B active parameters per token; GGUF
Starting checkpoint FINAL-Bench/Darwin-36B-Opus
Recommended first build Q2_K, approximately 13 GB
Hardware PC with sufficient RAM; a CPU-only execution path is available
Runtime llama.cpp with qwen35moe architecture support; check the installed build
License Apache-2.0; see License and attribution
Evidence status Publisher measurements with device-specific conditions below

This repository contains the full-model PC builds, not the approximately 5 GB phone derivatives. For a phone, use the separate Korean GGUF, Korean MLX, or English GGUF repository and its own requirements.

Choose your build

Build File size Memory guidance Best for
Q2_K โ€” recommended About 13 GB Publisher guidance: 16โ€“24 GB PC RAM; allow OS and context headroom Balanced daily use
Q4_K_M About 21 GB Publisher guidance: 32 GB PC RAM Highest measured Korean quality among these builds
Q3_K_M About 16 GB Publisher guidance: 24 GB PC RAM Intermediate size and quality
IQ1_M About 8.2 GB Publisher guidance: 16 GB PC RAM Smallest full-model file; greater quality loss

File sizes are rounded decimal GB, not process-memory measurements. Context, runtime buffers, the operating system and other applications need additional memory. The approximately 8.2 GB IQ1_M file is approximately 7.7 GiB; do not interpret those units as different builds.

Download and run

Install the Hugging Face CLI and a llama.cpp build that supports qwen35moe. The example downloads only the recommended file from the audited revision; it does not clone or download the whole repository.

1. Download the recommended build.

hf download FINAL-Bench/POCKET-35B-GGUF POCKET-35B-Q2_K.gguf --revision 3870039a87406fb90764b27e3984c8b1a36b269e --local-dir ./POCKET-35B

2. Run on the CPU.

llama-cli -m ./POCKET-35B/POCKET-35B-Q2_K.gguf --device none -ngl 0 -t 8 -c 4096 -n 256 -p "Explain why local AI can be useful."

The expected result is generated text in the terminal, not a fixed benchmark answer. These command examples were syntax-reviewed but not executed during this review.

Commands use the standalone llama.cpp executable names. Some distributions expose a unified llama launcher; consult that distribution's help and the official model-loading documentation. For -t, start with the physical-core count rather than all logical threads; more threads can reduce throughput.

For installation, memory errors and app-specific help, use the model-specific setup guide. Model files remain directly available from Hugging Face without a VIDRAFT login.

Runtime compatibility

Runtime Requirement Evidence and limits
llama.cpp A build with qwen35moe support The original card reports upstream llama.cpp use; an exact build/hash was not supplied for every measurement
Ollama A version supporting this model architecture and GGUF Generic Hugging Face GGUF integration exists; an exact file/version compatibility matrix is not supplied
LM Studio A bundled runtime supporting this model architecture Paste the repository URL into model search; check the app's compatibility information and available memory
PocketPal and phone runtimes Use a separately supplied phone derivative and its requirements No performance guarantee for these full-model PC files on phones
Apple MLX A separately supplied MLX artifact, not this GGUF file See POCKET-KR-MLX

The same file format does not guarantee support in every app or version. A dated, exact-version compatibility matrix remains a community contribution opportunity.

Hardware and performance

These are publisher-reported measurements, not promised speeds for arbitrary PCs. The CPU-only quickstart explicitly disables GPU acceleration with --device none; -ngl 0 alone is not the strongest no-GPU guarantee in every backend.

Device or mode Configuration Generation Evidence and limits
Server CPU Xeon, 16 threads; IQ1_M 27.0 tok/s Same-machine comparison below; exact CPU SKU/build and run repetitions were not supplied
Datacenter GPU H100; IQ1_M 197 tok/s GPU result, not CPU-only performance
Mac CPU MacBook M3 Pro, 18 GB, 8 threads; IQ1_M 13.8 tok/s Measured in the original card
Mac Metal MacBook M3 Pro, 18 GB; IQ1_M, tg64 25.4 tok/s Metal uses the integrated GPU
Mac CPU MacBook M3 Pro, 18 GB; Q2_K 19.5 tok/s Different quant from the headline IQ1_M measurement
iPhone / Strix Halo No matching throughput measurement supplied Not measured Do not infer speed from file size or a related platform

On the 18 GB M3 Pro, the original card recommends Q2_K on CPU because its approximately 13 GB file exceeds the recommended Metal memory budget. This is a device-specific recommendation, not a universal Apple-memory limit.

Same-machine Bonsai comparison and benchmark command
Measurement POCKET-35B IQ1_M Bonsai-27B Q1_0 Conditions
Server CPU generation 27.0 tok/s 10.1 tok/s Xeon, 16 threads
H100 generation 197 tok/s 89 tok/s Same stock llama.cpp comparison
H100 prompt processing 753 tok/s 1,816 tok/s Bonsai is faster on this measurement
M3 Pro Metal generation 25.4 tok/s 12.8 tok/s tg64, 18 GB MacBook
M3 Pro CPU generation 13.8 tok/s 4.4 tok/s 8 threads
M3 Pro Metal prompt processing 240.7 tok/s 73.4 tok/s pp128
M3 Pro CPU prompt processing 45.5 tok/s 9.6 tok/s pp128

The configurations do not establish equal quality, equal file size or a universal architecture advantage. The original card separately reports that Ternary-Bonsai-27B-Q2_0 required a PrismML fork; compatibility can change with releases.

To inspect the original CPU benchmark shape, first download IQ1_M instead of Q2_K, then run:

hf download FINAL-Bench/POCKET-35B-GGUF POCKET-35B-IQ1_M.gguf --revision 3870039a87406fb90764b27e3984c8b1a36b269e --local-dir ./POCKET-35B
llama-bench -m ./POCKET-35B/POCKET-35B-IQ1_M.gguf -p 128 -n 64 --device none -ngl 0 -t 16

This is a reproduction starting point, not proof of the published result on a different computer or runtime.

Quality and evaluation

Publisher-reported results. Each table has its own task, model and measurement conditions.

Build Evaluation Result Conditions and limits
Q4_K_M Korean Wikipedia perplexity 5.79 Lower is better; reference within this model
Q3_K_M Korean Wikipedia perplexity 6.06 Same reported Korean comparison
Q2_K Korean Wikipedia perplexity 6.49 Size/quality compromise
IQ1_M Korean Wikipedia perplexity 9.69 Greater Korean degradation
Build Evaluation Result Conditions and limits
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B reference GPQA Diamond 73.2% 198 questions, greedy; a distinct reference model
POCKET-35B Q4_K_M GPQA Diamond 68.7% 198 questions, greedy
POCKET-35B Q2_K GPQA Diamond 60.1% 198 questions, greedy
POCKET-35B IQ1_M HellaSwag 61.0% 400 questions
Bonsai-27B Q1_0 reference HellaSwag 60.0% Same reported 400-question comparison; confidence intervals overlap

The Qwen3.6 reference is not a same-checkpoint Darwin BF16 baseline. Do not interpret its difference as quantization-only loss. Small benchmark subsets and overlapping confidence intervals do not establish general quality equivalence.

Lineage and language-specific derivatives

POCKET is quantized from Darwin-36B-Opus, VIDRAFT's multi-generation Darwin model. The original card describes a Qwen3.5-family sparse MoE architecture with 256 experts and top-8 routing; the distinct Qwen3.6 model above is an evaluation reference, not a replacement starting-checkpoint declaration.

Component Attribution
Starting checkpoint Darwin-36B-Opus by VIDRAFT
GGUF quantization and runtime Upstream llama.cpp; standard GGUF types
Full-model files in this repository Q4_K_M, Q3_K_M, Q2_K and IQ1_M
Language-specific tuning and phone derivatives Separate VIDRAFT KR/EN builds, with their own quality and compatibility trade-offs

The original card reports stronger Korean degradation at extreme precision and different Korean/English phone trade-offs. Do not transfer a language-specific derivative's quality or memory results to the full-model files in this repository.

Intended uses

  • Local text assistance, experimentation and Korean-language workflows on a PC with suitable memory.
  • Comparing quantization size, Korean perplexity and throughput on a clearly identified device.
  • CPU-only workflows where local execution is preferred; no cloud service is required by the supplied command.

Limitations

  • The smallest file in this repository is about 8.2 GB, not a 5 GB phone build.
  • IQ1_M trades quality for size; Q2_K or a larger build is preferable when quality matters.
  • MacBook M3 Pro measurements are supplied above. iPhone and Strix Halo throughput remain unmeasured in the supplied evidence.
  • File size is not a complete RAM budget; longer context increases memory requirements.
  • Published speed and benchmark results are device-, build-, quant- and protocol-specific, not universal guarantees.

License and attribution

This model card declares Apache-2.0, consistent with the current immediate starting checkpoint. Read the Apache-2.0 license and the starting checkpoint's license before redistribution.

Starting checkpoint: FINAL-Bench/Darwin-36B-Opus. POCKET quantization, language tuning and documentation: VIDRAFT / FINAL-Bench. Runtime tooling: the llama.cpp contributors. Keep required notices and attribution when redistributing.

Support and updates

For device selection and installation help, visit the VIDRAFT POCKET setup guide. Report reproducible issues in the model discussions, including the filename, runtime version, device, memory and command; do not post private prompts or credentials.

A browser-accessible POCKET-35B CPU demo is a separate hosted service; its availability and latency are not local-device measurements. No local-inference telemetry or website gate is required to obtain these public files.

POCKET family

Model Role Start here
POCKET-35B-GGUF Full 35B PC builds; Q2_K recommended first Model card
POCKET-26B-GGUF Korean-tuned Gemma4 GGUF; 11 GB and 17 GB options Model card
POCKET-Darwin-180B-GGUF Text-only RSI reasoning; four-shard download Model card

Explore the POCKET collection. For phone-oriented derivatives, see KR GGUF, KR MLX and EN GGUF.

More POCKET projects and research

Qwen3.8 Flash-Next GGUF is a separate parent-model package, distinct from the POCKET-Darwin-180B RSI-R3 weights. Image projects are also separate: POCKET-Image-Zimage, POCKET-Zimage-CPU and Image Studio.

Research collections: Darwin, Aether, VKAE.

References

Documentation reviewed on 2026-11-04.

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