Qwen 3.8 27B open-source model tops Hugging Face

Alibaba's Qwen 3.8 27B, an Apache 2 licensed 27B vision-capable LLM, became the #4 most liked model on Hugging Face of all time. It matches closed-source state-of-the-art from months ago and runs on an RTX 5090, but defaults to 'extra high' reasoning, causing overthinking.
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