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

Qwen3.8-27B, released by Alibaba's Qwen team, has over 8,000 likes on HuggingFace and is called a "DeepSeek moment" for open source, matching closed-source SOTA on an RTX 5090. Community GGUF and abliterated variants have been downloaded up to 81,744 times.
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