Alibaba releases smaller, cost-effective Qwen 3.8 model
Alibaba released Qwen3.8-27B, a smaller, lower-priced model under its Qwen series, aimed at driving global adoption. The model has spawned numerous community quantizations and fine-tunes on HuggingFace, with Simon Willison praising it as a fun local model.
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