Alibaba Releases Qwen3.8-27B: 27B-Parameter Multimodal Model Beats Claude Opus 4.6 Max on Several Benchmarks
kimmonismus · x · 2026-08-14
Qwen3.8-27B has been released, a compact open-weight multimodal model with only 27B parameters. It claims state-of-the-art results in agentic coding, computer use, browser tasks, and long-horizon professional work, beating Claude Opus 4.6 Max on several benchmarks. It supports image input.
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