Testing Qwen3.8-27B on Groq: Fast but Lacks Time Awareness
coslinedev · reddit · 2026-08-31
A developer tested the new Qwen3.8-27B model via Groq's API for a chatbot project.
Key Findings:
- Performance: Inference speed on Groq is extremely fast.
- Issue: The model lacks awareness of the current date (answering "2024") because Groq runs the raw model without web search or tools.
- Fix: The issue was resolved by injecting the current date into the system prompt.
- Overall: The model shows good instruction following and multilingual capabilities apart from the time limitation.
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