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Opinion / analysisLarge Language Models1 source · Oct 8, 2026

The model that didn't exist, so you made it yourself

Last week, I wanted a small version of the prompt rewriter that ships with Qwen-Image 2.1.

Key points

  • The official one is a 9B model that needs about 20 GB of memory and thinks for thousands of tokens before writing a single paragraph.
  • On the Hub, I found only compressed copies of that same 9B model.
  • So I described what I wanted to ML Intern, and the next day I had a 0.8B version that runs on a CPU.
  • Without it you get a trained model and no idea whether it is better than what you started with.

Sources (1)

  • [1]The model that didn't exist, so you made it yourself
    Hugging Face Blog · Oct 8, 12:00 AM
    Last week, I wanted a small version of the prompt rewriter that ships with Qwen-Image 2.1.
    The official one is a 9B model that needs about 20 GB of memory and thinks for thousands of tokens before writing a single paragraph.

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