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

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4 weeks · 6 reports · 58 community posts · from Aug 3

1. Aug 3
   • And next week they will also release Qwen3.8-27b, also open-weights. I am super ready for that...
2. Aug 14
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3. Aug 15
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4. Aug 16
   • Qwen 3.8 27B is excellent, but it defaults to wildly overthinking thingssimonwillison.net
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5. Aug 17
   • AtomicChat/Qwen3.8-27B-GGUFhuggingface.co
   • Qwen3.8-27B at 256K on a 24GB RTX PRO 4000 SFF (432 GB/s): 50 tok/s with MTP
6. 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
   • 3 community posts
7. Aug 21
   • Qwen 3.8 27b is strong even at Q3_xxs
8. Aug 23
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9. Aug 24
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10. Aug 25
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11. Aug 26
    • Alibaba Releases Smaller, Cost-Effective Qwen AI Modelbloomberg.com
    • 7 community posts
12. Aug 27
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13. Aug 28
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14. Aug 29
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15. Aug 30
    • Some people said the Minecraft clone I fully vibecoded with Qwen3.8-27B Q4 is not that impressive because Minecraft is in the training data, so I had the model add 4 things that are probably not.
16. Aug 31
    • 5 community posts