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A Journal of Intelligence Transfer
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Models & Hardware

@MiaAI_lab Names Her Best Models for One to Four DGX Sparks

Qwen3.8-Flash-Next for one box; DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 or GLM-5.3-Flash for two or more.

Her personal picks, by cluster size.

@MiaAI_lab says there are lots of models and lots of combinations to run depending on how many Sparks you have, and posted her own recommendations.

DGX SparksModels
OneQwen3.8-Flash-Next
TwoDeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 or GLM-5.3-Flash
ThreeDeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 or GLM-5.3-Flash
FourDeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 or GLM-5.3-Flash
From her post. With four Sparks, she says, you can also run a different model on each pair.

One Spark? “Don’t overthink it,” she writes: Qwen3.8-Flash-Next gives the best combination of quality, performance and KV cache. On two Sparks, “you can’t go wrong with either! DeepSeek is better at some tasks, while GLM is more consistent and nicer to talk to.” Four Sparks give super performance on both, she says.

Skip the full GLM 5.3, she says.

Asked about the full GLM 5.3, she says she would skip it, calling DeepSeek V4.1 Flash about equal and much faster. Asked whether she prefers the Flash models on four Sparks, she says yes: “The speed difference, especially concurrent streams, is huge. It’s comparable quality wise.”

Sources

  1. @MiaAI_lab on X · Oct 22, 10:59 AM PT
  2. @MiaAI_lab on X · Oct 22, 11:01 AM PT
  3. @MiaAI_lab on X · Oct 22, 11:36 AM PT
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