Qwen 3.8 27B can interpret model weights, runnable locally on a laptop
theanonymousone · hn · 2026-11-04
Simon Willison reports that Qwen 3.8 27B can now interpret model weights, and the task runs locally on his laptop — no cloud-scale infrastructure needed. The finding was shared on Hacker News, linking to Willison's write-up.
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