Qwen 3.8 27B open-source model launches, tops Hugging Face

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3 weeks · 4 reports · 46 community posts · from Aug 14

1. Aug 14
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2. Aug 15
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3. Aug 16
   • Qwen 3.8 27B is excellent, but it defaults to wildly overthinking thingssimonwillison.net
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4. Aug 18
   • Qwen3.8-27B runs frontier-class coding agents and reasoning locally, no cloud API requiredventurebeat.com
   • Qwen 27B is the "DeepSeek moment" for open source. It matches the closed-source state-of-the-art...
5. Aug 19
   • Qwen3.8-27B is live on Tinker today. It’s natively multimodal with images + video, has flexible...
6. Aug 23
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7. Aug 24
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8. Aug 25
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9. Aug 26
   • Alibaba Releases Smaller, Cost-Effective Qwen AI Modelbloomberg.com
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10. Aug 27
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11. Aug 28
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12. Aug 29
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13. Aug 30
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14. Aug 31
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15. Sep 1
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16. Sep 2
    • DavidAU/Qwen3.8-27B-TURBO-Fable-Cold-Fusion-735-882-Heretic-Uncensored-NEO-CODER-MAX-MTP-GGUFhuggingface.co
    • Everyone is t/s maxing.. 3.8.. but after a week of using it for work I'm tempted to switch back to 3.6