Alibaba releases Qwen3.8-27B, a local multimodal model

Qwen3.8-27B is an Apache 2.0 licensed 27B parameter vision-capable LLM with 262K native context, extendable to 1M tokens via YaRN. It performs on par with Opus 4.6 on some benchmarks and runs locally on laptops.
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