Qwen, where's the small stuff? (1B/2B/4B)

I know Qwen is a key player in the local LLM space and has consistently introduced truly impactful technologies—like n-gram in Qwen-Next and the recent Qwen 3.8 27B, which is an amazing local model. However, my question is: why are we seeing fewer small-scale models lately—such as 4B, 2B, or 1B vers

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I know Qwen is a key player in the local LLM space and has consistently introduced truly impactful technologies—like n-gram in Qwen-Next and the recent Qwen 3.8 27B, which is an amazing local model. However, my question is: why are we seeing fewer small-scale models lately—such as 4B, 2B, or 1B vers