Qwen3.8-27B open-weights model released by Alibaba

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4 weeks · 5 reports · 63 community posts · from Aug 3

1. Aug 3
   • Qwen 3.8 Max and a new local 27B Qwen 3.8 is coming! Thanks @Alibaba_Qwen for featuring Hermes...
2. Aug 14
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3. Aug 15
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4. Aug 16
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5. 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
   • A "refusal-removed" version of Qwen3.8-27B can now run locally on Apple Silicon. Even its creators...
6. Aug 19
   • Qwen3.8-27B is live on Tinker today. It’s natively multimodal with images + video, has flexible...
7. Aug 20
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8. Aug 21
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9. Aug 22
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10. Aug 23
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11. Aug 24
    • This Small AI Will Change Everythingyoutube.com
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12. Aug 25
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13. Aug 26
    • Alibaba Releases Smaller, Cost-Effective Qwen AI Modelbloomberg.com
    • 6 community posts
14. Aug 27
    • Compared Qwen 3.8 27B community quants on RTX 6000 vs Claude Opus 4.6
15. Aug 28
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16. Aug 29
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17. Aug 30
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18. Aug 31
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19. Sep 1
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