QwenLaunchAI ModelsAugust 18, 2026

Qwen 3.8 27B launches as Apache 2.0 vision-capable LLM

Alibaba's Qwen lab released Qwen 3.8 27B, an Apache 2.0 licensed 27B parameter vision-capable LLM, on Friday. It defaults to 'xhigh' reasoning effort, causing spectacular over-thinking; Clem Delangue praised it as 'excellent' and it became the #1 trending model on Hugging Face.

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