QwenAnalysisAI ModelsAugust 17, 2026

Community Qwen3.8 fine-tunes and quants sweep Hugging Face

At least 15 community Qwen3.8 variants hit Hugging Face this week: abliterated/uncensored fine-tunes, GGUF quantizations, MLX conversions, and a 9B distill. Most-downloaded was empero-ai/Qwen3.8-9B-Distill-GGUF (71,582), ahead of huihui-ai's 27B abliterated GGUF (55,279), with the 9B Distill drawing the top trending score (130).

How this story unfolded

3 weeks · 23 reports · 103 community posts · 126 of 133 shown

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