Qwen 3.8 27B launches as Apache 2.0 vision-capable LLM

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1. Jul 27
   • We could really use Qwen3.8 in 27B, 35B, 122B and 397B sizes
2. Aug 3
   • 3 community posts
3. Aug 9
   • Next week gonna be interesting again - Qwen-3.8 27b - Grok 4.6 Sadly no Astra, but really...
4. Aug 11
   • Qwen 3.8-27b coming this week
5. Aug 12
   • 3 community posts
6. Aug 13
   • unsloth/Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B-GGUFhuggingface.co
   • 3 community posts
7. Aug 14
   • Qwen/Qwen3.8-27Bhuggingface.co
   • unsloth/Qwen3.8-27B-GGUFhuggingface.co
   • Alibaba’s new model promises Opus 4.6-level performance on your laptopthenewstack.io
   • 31 community posts
8. Aug 15
   • AI News: ChatGPT Ultrafast, Grok 4.6, 3 New Open-Source Models, and more!youtube.com
   • JonathanColetti/Qwen3.8-27B-Uncensored-GGUFhuggingface.co
   • orcarouter/Qwen3.8-27B-Uncensored-FP8huggingface.co
   • 9 community posts
9. Aug 16
   • CORS Chatsimonwillison.net
   • Blackfrost-AI/Qwen3.8-27B-ABLITERATED-GGUFhuggingface.co
   • AEON-7/Qwen3.8-27B-AEON-ULTIMATE-UNCENSORED-BF16huggingface.co
   • empero-ai/Qwen3.8-27B-Ridge-GGUFhuggingface.co
   • Qwen 3.8 27B is excellent, but it defaults to wildly overthinking thingssimonwillison.net
   • 16 community posts
10. Aug 17
    • 0bserverx/Qwen3.8-27B-Heretic-Abliterated-Uncensored-GGUFhuggingface.co
    • AtomicChat/Qwen3.8-27B-GGUFhuggingface.co
    • DavidAU/Qwen3.8-27B-Cold-Fusion-GAIN-V1.1huggingface.co
    • PocketAiHub/Qwen3.8-27B-Abliterated-MLXhuggingface.co
    • Alibaba answers Meta’s AI challenge with new laptop-ready modelcnbc.com
    • 19 community posts
11. Aug 18
    • 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
    • huihui-ai/Huihui-Qwen3.8-27B-abliteratedhuggingface.co
    • HauhauCS/Qwen3.8-27B-Uncensored-HauhauCS-Aggressive-MTP-GGUFhuggingface.co
    • orcarouter/Qwen3.8-27B-Uncensored-MLXhuggingface.co
    • orcarouter/Qwen3.8-27B-Uncensored-GGUFhuggingface.co
    • empero-ai/Qwen3.8-9B-GGUFhuggingface.co
    • 13 community posts
12. Aug 19
    • DavidAU/Qwen3.8-27B-Cold-Fusion-GAIN-V1.1-NM-DAU-NEO-MAX-MTP-GGUFhuggingface.co
    • z-lab/Qwen3.8-27B-DFlash2huggingface.co
    • 7 community posts
13. Aug 20
    • 3 community posts