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  The current landscape of Enterprise Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) presents a difficult binary choice. On one side, you have   DeepSeek-V3 , a model that has radically disrupted token economics with its Multi-Head Latent Attention (MLA) architecture, offering massive throughput at a fraction of the cost of GPT-4. On the other side, you have the  Qwen 3.5  series. Qwen has solidified its reputation as the open-weights leader for complex reasoning, coding, and instruction following, often outperforming proprietary models in "needle-in-a-haystack" retrieval tasks. For CTOs and AI Leads, the decision paralysis is real. Do you optimize for the lowest possible OpEx with DeepSeek, risking hallucination on complex synthesis? Or do you deploy Qwen 3.5 (likely via vLLM or TGI) for maximum reasoning fidelity, accepting higher inference latency and hardware costs? The answer isn't to choose one. It is to architect a system that leverages the specific strengths of both. T...

  The release of Qwen 3.5, particularly its massive Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) variant, presents a paradox for enterprise infrastructure. On paper, the model boasts an efficient inference path with only 17 billion active parameters. In practice, the total parameter count of 397 billion creates an immediate infrastructure bottleneck. When you attempt to load this model on a standard 80GB A100 using default PyTorch pipelines, you almost invariably hit  RuntimeError: CUDA out of memory . This creates a frustrating gap: the model is computationally light enough to  run  on a single GPU (due to sparse activation), but it is too physically heavy to  load . This article details the specific architectural constraints causing these failures and provides a production-grade implementation using 4-bit Normal Float (NF4) quantization and intelligent offloading to stabilize deployment without sacrificing inference accuracy. The Root Cause: Why 17B Active Parameters Still Crash ...