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Qwen3.8-27B

Hacker News Friday 14 August 2026, 15:03 UTC By mfiguiere 1 min read
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We promised open weights for Qwen3.8. Now, time to meet them! ⚡ Qwen3.8-27B: - A native multimodal dense model.

We promised open weights for Qwen3.8. Now, time to meet them! 🎉 ⚡ Qwen3.8-27B: - A native multimodal dense model. With just 27B parameters, it outperforms Qwen3.7-Plus overall and shines in real-world coding & office workflows. - 262K native context, easily extendable to 1M tokens via YaRN. - Built for builders. Highly efficient, high-quality, and licensed under Apache 2.0. 🚀 The open weights for Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B (Max-level) have also been released recently. Whether you're shipping lightweight applications with Qwen3.8-27B locally or building agents with Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B, they're yours now! Download, deploy, and build something we haven't imagined yet. 👀👇 - Hugging Face： huggingface.co/collections/Qw… - ModelScope： modelscope.cn/collections/Qw…
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