Conservative Expectations for Qwen 3.8 Preview
teortaxesTex · x · 2026-07-20
The author is skeptical about Qwen 3.8 Preview, noting Qwen's historical pattern of releasing open weights early but delivering rough pre-release versions, making them mostly useful for research reference.
They add that Qwen 3.6 is significantly better than 3.5, and Qwen 3.7 Max is nearing the frontier, but previous Max-preview models have been fairly mediocre.
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