Qwen3.8-27B open-weights model released, tops Hugging Face
Alibaba's Qwen3.8-27B, a 27B-parameter multimodal dense model with 262K native context, outperforms Qwen3.7-Plus and is Apache 2 licensed. It became the #1 trending model on Hugging Face, with community benchmarks showing it beating Opus 4.8 locally on an RTX 5090.
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