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

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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.

Qwen Studio

Qwen Studio offers comprehensive functionality spanning chatbot, image and video understanding, image generation, document processing, web search integration, tool utilization, and artifacts.

Qwen Studio

Qwen Studio offers comprehensive functionality spanning chatbot, image and video understanding, image generation, document processing, web search integration, tool utilization, and artifacts.