QwenLaunchAI ModelsAugust 17, 2026

Qwen3.8-27B open weights released, spawns community fine-tunes

Qwen released open weights for Qwen3.8-27B, a native multimodal dense model with 262K native context, outperforming Qwen3.7-Plus. Community GGUF and uncensored variants quickly appeared, with bartowski's GGUF reaching 124,789 downloads.

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