Alibaba's Qwen Announces Open Weights for Qwen3.8-Max and 27B Next Week
multimodalart · x · 2026-08-03
Alibaba's Qwen team announced that it will release the open weights for Qwen3.8-Max next week, alongside the Qwen3.8-27B model.
Officially touted as setting a new bar for coding and cowork at 2.4T parameters, Qwen3.8-Max features autonomous coding capabilities, demonstrating over 10 days of self-evolving development to build production-ready projects from scratch. The release of the 27B variant directly answers recent community demands for a smaller, accessible version.
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