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A Local Opus? Alibaba Qwen Open-Sources Qwen3.8-27B — Frontier Coding and Agent Scores That Runs on 17GB of RAM: Alibaba's Qwen...

Team open-sourced Qwen3.8-27B, which topped Hugging Face's global trending chart within two days and passed one million downloads. Overseas developers nicknamed it the local Opus 4.6: under 30B parameters, it outperforms every model released four months ago including Opus 4.6, matches DeepSeek V4-Pro and GPT 5.6 Luna, and runs on 17GB of RA...

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A Local Opus? Alibaba Qwen Open-Sources Qwen3.8-27B — Frontier Coding and Agent Scores That Runs on 17GB of RAM: Alibaba's Qwen team open-sourced Qwen3.8-27B, which topped Hugging Face's global trending chart within two days and passed one million downloads. Overseas developers nicknamed it the local Opus 4.6: under 30B parameters, it outperforms every model released four months ago including Opus 4.6, matches DeepSeek V4-Pro and GPT 5.6 Luna, and runs on 17GB of RA...

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