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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 Qwen...

Open-sourced Qwen3.8-27B, topping Hugging Face's trending chart within two days and passing one million downloads. The sub-30B model reportedly outperforms models released four months ago, matches DeepSeek V4-Pro and GPT 5.6 Luna, and runs on 17GB RAM when quantized.

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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 Qwen open-sourced Qwen3.8-27B, topping Hugging Face's trending chart within two days and passing one million downloads. The sub-30B model reportedly outperforms models released four months ago, matches DeepSeek V4-Pro and GPT 5.6 Luna, and runs on 17GB RAM when quantized.