Qwen3.8-27B open-weights model tops Hugging Face trending

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2 weeks · 13 reports · 48 community posts · from Aug 13

1. Aug 13
   • 2 community posts
2. Aug 14
   • 4 community posts
3. Aug 15
   • orcarouter/Qwen3.8-27B-Uncensored-FP8huggingface.co
   • 3 community posts
4. Aug 16
   • Qwen 3.8 27B is excellent, but it defaults to wildly overthinking thingssimonwillison.net
   • 3 community posts
5. Aug 17
   • AtomicChat/Qwen3.8-27B-GGUFhuggingface.co
   • PocketAiHub/Qwen3.8-27B-Abliterated-MLXhuggingface.co
   • This is unreal. Qwen 3.8 27b running locally on my RTX 5090 BEATS Opus 4.8 in my benchmarks...
6. 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
   • 2 community posts
7. Aug 19
   • bartowski/Qwen3.8-27B-GGUFhuggingface.co
   • 2 community posts
8. Aug 21
   • incoai/Qwen3.8-27B-DFlash2-GGUFhuggingface.co
9. Aug 22
   • I benchmark DFlash 2 (PR build) in llama.cpp on Qwen 3.8 27B against all speculative methods for 3 days. 2.26x on 100 real coding prompts, 4.68x with one n-gram drafter on top. Up to 8x on specific cases.
10. Aug 23
    • 3 community posts
11. Aug 24
    • This Small AI Will Change Everythingyoutube.com
    • 5 community posts
12. Aug 25
    • 3 community posts
13. Aug 26
    • logic65/Qwen3.8-Whittle-MoE-27B-A17.8Bhuggingface.co
    • Alibaba Releases Smaller, Cost-Effective Qwen AI Modelbloomberg.com
    • How To EASILY Run Local AI Modelsyoutube.com
    • 10 community posts
14. Aug 27
    • 3 community posts
15. Aug 28
    • 5 community posts
16. Aug 29
    • Saved my fiances phone with qwen 3.8 27b