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

qwen3.5:27b

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

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

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.

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.

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

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 …

Eric on Twitter / X

Qwen3.5 27B is awesome (the entire family above 9B is impressive). You can now try it directly in your browser at SOTA speeds with whatever GPU you have: https://t.co/avWxUd8vNLMy previous research in practice - The `Intel/Qwen3.5-27B-int4-AutoRound` is particularly good. https://t.co/QVSVNKM0Nk— Eric (@Ex0byt) March 21, 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

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

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

Qwen3.6 27B — Qwen/Qwen3.6-27B rental

Free · 32 concurrent · hosted by selimaktas on LocalMaxxing.

Awni Hannun on Twitter / X

According to benchmarks Qwen3.5 4B is as good as GPT 4o.GPT 4o came out ~2 years ago (May 2024).Qwen 3.5 4B runs easily on modern mobile devices.So the gap between frontier intelligence in a datacenter and running a model of equal quality on your iPhone could be 2-3 years.…— Awni Hannun (@awnihannun) March 6, 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.

jaredpalmer/kev

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

Underdog Saluki 27B

Qwen3.8-27B in a 7.89 GB file that loads in stock llama.cpp, and how it compares with other 2-bit builds.