Alibaba Qwen 3.8 Released: 27B Open Weights and 262k Context
The Decoder · rss · 2026-08-15
Alibaba's Qwen team has released the Qwen 3.8 model, a dense 27-billion-parameter model. The model is released under the Apache 2.0 open-source license and natively supports a context window of up to 262,000 tokens.
Key Features:
- Performance: Qwen 3.8 is designed to outperform the larger Qwen 3.7 Plus in coding and office tasks.
- Target Audience: Aimed at developers building local and agent-based applications.
- License: Uses the permissive Apache 2.0 license, facilitating commercial integration.
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