Qwen 3.8 27B open-weight model launches, tops Hugging Face

Alibaba's Qwen 3.8 27B, an Apache 2 licensed 27B-parameter multimodal dense model, outperforms Qwen3.7-Plus overall with 262K native context. It scores 52 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, matching GPT-5.6 Luna (max), and is the #1 trending model on Hugging Face.