Technical assessment of Qwen3.8-27B ahead of Max's Arena debut
arena · x · 2026-09-02
LMArena notes that before Qwen3.8-Max-0902 landed in Arena, they had also tested Qwen3.8-27B earlier this month. Peter Gostev shared his technical assessment of this smaller open-source model from Alibaba while in SF; full video linked in the post.
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