Qwen3.8-27B tops Hugging Face trending

Qwen3.8-27B, an Apache 2 licensed 27B parameter vision-capable LLM from Alibaba's Qwen lab, became the #1 trending model on Hugging Face. It defaults to 'xhigh' reasoning effort, causing overthinking; Simon Willison found it 'excellent' but noted it can use 22,276 tokens on simple tasks.
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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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