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Qwen4 Long-Context Models and VRAM Pressure

Signals from a pull request point to Qwen4 models with up to one million tokens of context and a possible 120B-class version, reshaping self-hosted inference requirements. Larger key-value caches make VRAM and RAM provisioning a central cost issue for local deployments.

Detected: 2026-11-01 ยท Updated: 2026-11-01

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