multimodal — A model that works with more than text — reading images, audio, or video, and sometimes generating them too.
Why it matters
If you're deciding whether Qwen3-Max is worth adopting for coding or multimodalA model that works with more than text — reading images, audio, or video, and sometimes generating them too.Full definition → work, this gives task-by-task evidence (games, CAD, frontend, writing) plus real cost figures rather than marketing claims.
Key quotes
“That's just levels of immersion that I have not seen before.”
Bijan Bowen
“Aside from that New York City skates sim that was absolutely stellar, but everything else just felt like good, but not great.”
Bijan Bowen
“And at 2.4 trillion parameters, I am kind of looking for great.”
Bijan Bowen
“it is still probably best regarded as like the overall finest local model because its intelligence is fantastic and its size allows it to actually be realistically run on a wide variety of different hardware”
Bijan Bowen
“Keep in mind, if you do have one of these coding plans, you need to use the API key specific to it, or else you get charged as well.”
