Users Complain About Qwen 3.8 Open Weights: No Vision, Crippled vs API
entsnack · reddit · 2026-08-13
A Reddit user criticized the open-weight version of Qwen 3.8, claiming it is severely crippled compared to its API counterpart. The user pointed out the lack of vision capabilities, suspecting that the company intentionally handicapped the open-source model to prevent cannibalizing their API profits, turning the open release into a mere ad for the paid API.
More from Models
- Conspiracy Theory on OpenAI's Next Model Astra: Intelligent Cloud System — haider1 · 2026-08-13
- Grok-4.6 Tested: Agentic Coding Benchmark Score Improves by ~5% — karminski3 · 2026-08-13
- Users Report GPT-4o Acting 'Dumb' Recently, Suspecting Massive Nerf — imjustnewatai · 2026-08-13
- Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B Available on Modal with 1M Token Context — AAAzzam · 2026-08-13
- Hands-on with Grok 4.6: Sonnet-class Performance at a Fraction of the Cost — bindureddy · 2026-08-13
- From Intelligence to Cost-Efficiency: The Evolving Core Metric for LLMs — beffjezos · 2026-08-13