Alibaba Qwen Open Sources Qwen3.8-27B, Outperforms Claude on Benchmarks
智东西 · wechat · 2026-08-14
Alibaba Qwen officially open-sourced the Qwen3.8-27B model. It is a 27B parameter native multimodal dense model supporting image and video understanding, with a native context length of 262K, extendable to 1 million tokens via YaRN. Compared to the previous generation, it shows significant improvements in coding, long-horizon office tasks, and ComputerUse, outperforming Claude Opus 4.6 Max on benchmarks like SWE-benchPro and OSWorld-Verified. The model uses the Apache 2.0 license and focuses on local and lightweight deployment.
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