Alibaba Releases Qwen3.8-27B: Apache 2.0 Local Model
adrianscottcom · x · 2026-08-15
Alibaba's Qwen team released the open weights for Qwen3.8-27B. It is a 27B dense, natively multimodal model licensed under Apache 2.0 with a native context of 262K tokens (extendable to 1M). It achieves strong benchmark scores: 61.7 on SWE-bench Pro, 90.3 on LiveCodeBench v6, 84.3 on OSWorld-Verified, and 70.7 on CoWorkBench. The model is noted to fit on a single GPU while outperforming previous generations and competing with larger proprietary systems in coding and agentic workflows.
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