Qwen3.8-27B open-weight model tops Hugging Face trending

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2 weeks · 6 reports · 55 community posts · from Aug 14

1. Aug 14
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2. Aug 15
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3. Aug 16
   • Qwen 3.8 27B is excellent, but it defaults to wildly overthinking thingssimonwillison.net
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4. Aug 17
   • Qwen3.8-27B at 256K on a 24GB RTX PRO 4000 SFF (432 GB/s): 50 tok/s with MTP
5. 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
   • orcarouter/Qwen3.8-27B-Uncensored-MLXhuggingface.co
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6. Aug 23
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7. Aug 24
   • This Small AI Will Change Everythingyoutube.com
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8. Aug 25
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9. Aug 26
   • Alibaba Releases Smaller, Cost-Effective Qwen AI Modelbloomberg.com
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10. Aug 27
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11. Aug 28
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12. Aug 29
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13. Aug 30
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14. Aug 31
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