QwenLaunchAI ModelsAugust 6, 2026

Qwen3.8-27B open-source model sparks community wave

Qwen released Qwen3.8-27B, a natively multimodal model with flexible thinking control, on Aug 5. Community GGUF/FP8 quantizations and uncensored variants followed, with one download reaching 81,744. Simon Willison praised it as the most fun local model in years.

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