Qwen 3.8 27B tops Hugging Face trending

Alibaba's Qwen 3.8 27B, an Apache 2 licensed 27B vision-capable LLM, became the #1 trending model on Hugging Face. Simon Willison praised it as the most fun local model he's used, but noted it defaults to 'xhigh' reasoning effort, causing overthinking.
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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
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