Qwen 3.8 27B matches frontier models, runs locally

Alibaba's Qwen3.8-27B, an Apache 2.0 licensed 27B vision-capable LLM, scores 52 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, matching GPT-5.6 Luna (max) and one point behind GLM-5.2 (max). It runs locally on consumer hardware, with a 262K native context extendable to 1M tokens via YaRN.
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