Triple Open Release Day: Qwen3.8 Max and Two Lightweight VLMs
mervenoyann · x · 2026-08-13
Hugging Face saw three major open model releases in a single day:
- Qwen3.8 Max: A95B/2.4T parameters with a 1M token context window, ranking #1 on the agentic AA index.
- Liquid LFM2.5-VL-3B: A small Vision-Language Model (VLM) achieving best-in-class performance across benchmarks with 32k context.
- Cohere North Micro Vision: A compact VLM featuring native resolution processing and 128k context length.
Related event: Open Source AI Summer: Intensive Releases Including Qwen3.8(6 posts)→
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