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Qwen3.8-27B tops Hugging Face trending

Alibaba's Qwen3.8-27B, an Apache 2 licensed 27B vision-capable LLM, became the #1 trending model on Hugging Face. It defaults to 'xhigh' reasoning effort, causing overthinking; Simon Willison recommends raising context to 262,144 tokens.

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