Qwen3.8-27B tops Hugging Face trending
Alibaba's Qwen3.8-27B, an Apache 2 licensed 27B vision-capable LLM, became the #1 trending model on Hugging Face. Simon Willison praised it as the most fun local model he's run, noting it defaults to 'xhigh' reasoning effort causing spectacular over-thinking.
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