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QwenLaunchAI ModelsAugust 17, 2026

Qwen3.8-27B open weights released, tops Hugging Face

Alibaba released Qwen3.8-27B, a native multimodal dense model with 27B parameters, outperforming Qwen3.7-Plus and supporting 262K native context. It became the #1 trending model on Hugging Face, with over 3 billion global downloads in six months.

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