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)

<a href="https://x.com/alibaba_qwen/status/2088280182356611304"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260814/i16.jpg" vspace="4" /></a> <p><a href="https://www.techmeme.com/260814/p16#a260814p16" title="Techmeme permalink"><img height="12" src="http://www.techmeme.com/img/pml.png" style="border: none; padding: 0; margin: 0;" width="11" /></a> <a href="https://x.com/alibaba_qwen">@alibaba_qwen</a>:<br /> <span style="font-size: 1.3em;"><b><a href="https://x.com/alibaba_qwen/status/2088280182356611304">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</a></b></span>&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; We promised open weights for Qwen3.8. Now, time to meet them! &#127881; &#9889; Qwen3.8-27B: - A native multimodal dense model. With just 27B parameters, it outperforms Qwen3.7-Plus overall and shines in real-world coding &amp; office workflows. - 262K native context, easily extendable to 1M</p>