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Qwythos 9B is an open-source model released as a Qwen3.5-based GGUF by Empero-ai…

2026-06-28 · 18:00 UTC ·@BrianRoemmele ·0 min read

Brief

Qwythos 9B is an open-source, Qwen3.5-based GGUF model (announced 2026-06-28 by Brian Roemmele) that Empero-ai bills as uncensored and quantized for efficiency. It reportedly handles multimodal input (images and text), supports function calling, and can reason across up to 1,000,000 tokens; the release is hosted on Hugging Face.

Why it matters

Qwythos 9B is an open-source model released as a Qwen3.5-based GGUF by Empero-ai and promoted by Brian Roemmele on 2026-06-28.

Key details

  • The model is described as uncensored, quantized for efficiency, able to reason over up to 1,000,000 tokens of context, understand images and text, and support function calling.
  • The model is hosted on Hugging Face at huggingface.co/empero-ai/Qwythos-9B-Claude-Mythos-5-1M-GGUF and positioned as part of an open-source effort to democratize AI.
Source evidence

BOOM!

Meet the open source Cambrian Explosion of repulsion of Anthropic!

Meet Qwythos 9B, a Qwen3.5 based GGUF that's both uncensored and quantized for efficiency.

I am running it now and it is brilliant!

A model that can reason through 1 million tokens of context, understand images and text, and even call functions.

Come and take it!

huggingface.co/empero-ai/Qwy…

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