Qwen3.8-27B open-weight model tops Hugging Face trending
Alibaba released Qwen3.8-27B under Apache 2.0, a 27B-parameter multimodal dense model with 262K native context (extendable to 1M via YaRN). It reportedly matches Opus 4.6 performance and runs locally on an RTX 5090.
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