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Alibaba releases Qwen3.8-27B

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Qwen3.8-27B released — a 27B dense model combined with a vision encoder, a context of 262,144, Apache 2.0

Why it matters

While the top model moves to its own license, the small model stays on Apache 2.0 — a two-track licensing split by scale

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In the model family tree — Qwen family · 13 versions

  1. Earlier versionQwen3.8-2.4T-A95B
  2. This recordQwen3.8-27B
  3. Later versionQwen3.8-Max
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