Qwen 3.8 27B Matches Best Models of 2 Years Ago, Where Are America's Open Weights?
zsakib_ · x · 2026-10-15
Citing Artificial Analysis benchmarks, the author notes Qwen 3.8 27B now rivals the best closed models from two years ago, then asks where America's rival open-weight models are. He insists "American" means US-original architecture, not finetunes of K3 via Thinking Machine's Tinker, joking about sleeper-agent risks in third-party finetunes.
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