Qwen 3.8 27B matches frontier models, runs locally

Alibaba's Qwen 3.8 27B, an Apache 2 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) and DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 (max). It runs on consumer hardware like RTX 5090, but defaults to 'xhigh' reasoning effort causing overthinking.