Qwen3.8-2.4T Suspected as Text-Only Version with Multimodality Disabled
xhluca · x · 2026-08-13
Discussion suggests that the Qwen3.8-2.4T model is likely a text-only version of Qwen3.8-Max. The author speculates that its multimodal capabilities might have been disabled post-hoc, wondering whether multimodality offers a significant commercial advantage in the current open-source ecosystem.
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