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Alibaba releases weights for Qwen3.8 models under Apache 2.0 license, including Qwen3.8-27B, which it says beats Qwen3.7-Plus and excels in real-world coding (@alibaba_qwen)

Techmeme ·
Alibaba has put Qwen3.8-27B’s open weights on Hugging Face under Apache 2.0.

The Qwen team describes the 27B model as native multimodal and dense, with 262K native context that can extend to 1M. It says the model outperforms Qwen3.7-Plus overall and is strong on real-world coding and office workflows. Techmeme’s item also points to community posts about local runs and quantized versions. Techmeme's note

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