Qwen3.8-27B open-weight model launches, tops Hugging Face

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1. Aug 3
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2. Aug 14
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3. Aug 15
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4. Aug 16
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5. Aug 17
   • Qwen 3.8 27B is excellent, but it defaults to wildly overthinking things
6. Aug 18
   • Qwen 3.8 27B scores 52 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Indexsimonwillison.net
   • Qwen3.8-27B runs frontier-class coding agents and reasoning locally, no cloud API requiredventurebeat.com
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7. Aug 19
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8. Aug 20
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9. Aug 21
   • Qwen 3.8 Low and Medium are goated
10. Aug 23
    • I gave Qwen 3.8 27B a reverse-engineering job and it finished in 30 minutes
11. Aug 24
    • This Small AI Will Change Everythingyoutube.com
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12. Aug 25
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13. Aug 26
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14. Aug 27
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15. Aug 28
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16. Aug 29
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17. Aug 30
    • Some people said the Minecraft clone I fully vibecoded with Qwen3.8-27B Q4 is not that impressive because Minecraft is in the training data, so I had the model add 4 things that are probably not.