Qwen 3 offers a case study in how to effectively release a model

Something is afoot in the land of Qwen

I’m behind on writing about Qwen 3.5, a truly remarkable family of open weight models released by Alibaba’s Qwen team over the past few weeks. I’m hoping that the 3.5 …

Qwen on Twitter / X

📢Meet Qwen3.8-Max — our most capable model to date. Next week, the open weights of Qwen3.8-Max will be released, and Qwen3.8-27B is also going open-weights to meet you all!🎉Qwen3.8-Max, a new bar for coding and cowork at 2.4T parameters:- Autonomous coding: 10+ days of… pic.twitter.com/e3YFj2hqcT— Qwen (@Alibaba_Qwen) August 3, 2026

Qwen

Qwen is a family of large language models developed by Alibaba Cloud. Many Qwen models are distributed under the free and open-source Apache 2.0 license, the source-available Qwen License, or the non-commercial Qwen Research License; other proprietary Qwen models are served through Alibaba Cloud.

qwen3.5:27b

Qwen 3.5 is a family of open-source multimodal models that delivers exceptional utility and performance.

Qwen on Twitter / X

Qwen3.8 is launching and going open-weight soon!🌐With a massive 2.4T parameters, this model is continuously evolving. We believe it’s one of the most powerful model available today, compatible to leading frontier AI models , second only to Fable 5.You don't have to wait to… pic.twitter.com/JS3ID73IYS— Qwen (@Alibaba_Qwen) July 19, 2026

Alibaba Unveils Qwen3.8-Max: Its Largest and Most Capable Flagship Model to Date - Alibaba Cloud

Alibaba unveils Qwen3.8-Max, its most powerful model with 2.4 trillion parameters, excelling in coding, research, and visual intelligence.

Qwen 3.8 27B is excellent, but it defaults to wildly overthinking things

Friday’s big release was Qwen 3.8 27B, an Apache 2 licensed 27B parameter vision-capable LLM from Alibaba’s Qwen research lab. I’ve been looking forward to this one: 27B is an …

jaredpalmer/kev

tiny Jev-like family of decision models built on top of Qwen3.5 you can train and run on your own

Georgi Gerganov on Twitter / X

I think the consensus is that Qwen3.5 is a step change so atm I would recommend explore that, given that it covers a range of sizes suitable for all devices.Note that the main issues that people currently unknowingly face with local models mostly revolve around the harness and…— Georgi Gerganov (@ggerganov) March 30, 2026

A 30B Qwen Model Walks Into a Raspberry Pi… and Runs in Real Time

ByteShape's device-optimized release of Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-2507.

Casper Hansen on Twitter / X

Qwen3.5 Small models about to release!Qwen3.5 9B, 4B, 2B, 0.8B, or something in between is possible.- imagine 9B beating Qwen3-Next-80B- or 4B beating Qwen3-VL-30B in multimodal reasoningBuying a GPU is starting to have high return of intelligence on investment— Casper Hansen (@casper_hansen_) March 1, 2026

Artur Chakhvadze on Twitter / X

We are releasing our first quantized checkpoints for the Qwen3.5 series of models, co-designed jointly with our inference engine to achieve maximum possible performance on Apple hardwareStarting from 0.8B, 2B and 4B modelshttps://t.co/2R8BdhAfzv— Artur Chakhvadze (@norpadon) June 8, 2026

Zhijian Liu on Twitter / X

🔥 DFlash x MLX is happening!Shoutout to @aryagm01 for the early work on this. We're building on the momentum. Native MLX support, more models (Qwen3.5), up to 4x faster. Lossless!👉 https://t.co/9CtLKDptNI pic.twitter.com/pMdaCH4oKi— Zhijian Liu (@zhijianliu_) April 15, 2026

The OpenAI Open weight model might be 120B

726 votes, 163 comments. The person who "leaked" this model is from the openai (HF) organization So as expected, it's not gonna be something you can…