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

Alibaba's Qwen 3.8 27B, an Apache 2 licensed 27B-parameter vision-capable LLM, launched and became the #1 trending model on Hugging Face. It scores 52 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, matching GPT-5.6 Luna (max).

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3 weeks · 5 reports · 20 community posts · from Aug 3

Aug 3
- And next week they will also release Qwen3.8-27b, also open-weights. I am super ready for that...
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- Qwen 3.8 27B is excellent, but it defaults to wildly overthinking thingssimonwillison.net
Aug 17
- DavidAU/Qwen3.8-27B-Cold-Fusion-GAIN-V1.1huggingface.co
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- incoai/Qwen3.8-27B-DFlash2huggingface.co
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- I tried to do agenic coding with Qwen 3.8 27B 3bit quant on a macbook air m2 24gb. It took 63 hours, but amazingly, the flight simulator worked.

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