Alibaba Open Sources Qwen3.8-27B: 262K Context & Apache 2.0 License
gajesh · x · 2026-08-15
Alibaba released open weights for Qwen3.8-27B under the Apache 2.0 license.
Key Specs:
- Performance: A native multimodal dense model with 27B parameters. It outperforms Qwen3.7-Plus overall and excels in coding and office workflows.
- Context: Native 262K context, extendable to 1M tokens via YaRN.
- Release: Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B (Max-level) weights are also available.
- Ecosystem: Community projects like mlx.fast are already quantizing and optimizing it.
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