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Alibaba Cloud's latest Qwen 3-series flagship LLM, the successor to Qwen 3.7 with improved reasoning, coding and agentic capabilities.

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About Qwen 3.8

Qwen 3.8 is a large language model by Alibaba Cloud. Alibaba Cloud's latest Qwen 3-series flagship LLM, the successor to Qwen 3.7 with improved reasoning, coding and agentic capabilities. This page tracks 87 recent news stories about Qwen 3.8, curated from 30+ sources and updated every 15 minutes.

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Alibaba unveils Qwen 3.8-MAX AI model; shares rally
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Alibaba unveils Qwen 3.8-MAX AI model; shares rally

Alibaba's surprise release of its most powerful AI model yet signals that China's tech giants are no longer content to follow in the footsteps of American competitors—they're racing ahead on their own terms. The unveiling of Qwen 3.8-MAX sent the company's stock surging, a vote of confidence that Alibaba may finally have cracked the code to building large language models that rival or exceed the capabilities of OpenAI and Google. The move underscores a widening technological split between East and West, where Chinese firms are increasingly confident they can compete without relying on American expertise or infrastructure.

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A preliminary Qwen3.8-27B model card is live!

If you scroll down from the countdown at https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B, you see a big model card with a bunch of sections: Highlights, Model Overview, Quickstart, Best Practices, Citation,...

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Is waiting for Qwen 3.8 27B like waiting for Star War Episode one?

Is waiting for Qwen 3.8 27B like waiting for Star War Episode one? I'm sweating waiting to get my hand on this to try it tomorrow morning. But it takes me back to Star Wars 1 and the disappointment...

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Qwen 3.8 Release Date and How to Be Ready on Day One

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How do you plan to run Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B locally?

To my fellow crazies, the few. Those who dared wrestle with llama-70b, mistral-large, goliath, mistral8x22B, DeepSeekV2/3, wept when llama4 behemoth was announced, picked yourself up and are now...

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Day 0 Support for Qwen 3 8 on AMD Instinct GPUs

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Exact Qwen 3.8 27b release date and time

Since it seems like there is some confusion in other threads... Source: https://modelscope.cn/models/Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B

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Three Out of Every Four Layers Have No KV Cache at All
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Three Out of Every Four Layers Have No KV Cache at All

by Sebastian Buzdugan — Qwen3.8–2.4T-A95B is 2.4 trillion parameters with 95 billion active, a 262k native context that stretches to 1.01 million tokens. The…

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Upcoming Qwen-3.8-27B release is one of the most important events in the last few years, and I'm not exaggerating

The model is very small, just like Qwen-3.6-27B was, and can be run on a single GPU. It is not frontier, but this isn't needed. All the model needs is to be "good enough". And this release will show...

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Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B · Official Countdown · Hugging Face

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Serve Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B, a 2.4T-Parameter Model, with Configurable Reasoning on NVIDIA GB300 NVL72
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Serve Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B, a 2.4T-Parameter Model, with Configurable Reasoning on NVIDIA GB300 NVL72

Alibaba released the open weights for Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B (Qwen3.8-Max), its largest open-weight model, bringing near-frontier capabilities to the open... Alibaba released the open weights for...

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Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B Released

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The man who built Qwen has a new lab, and the Shanghai government is an investor

Junyang Lin, who led Alibaba Qwen, launched Pragmatik Labs in Shanghai. Tencent, HSG, Gaorong and a state fund backed it.

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Qwen 3.8 Max Vs DeepSeek V4 Flash Vs Kimi K3 — 3 Brutal Tests Lindsay Hubbard (uH1DkREZwX)

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Tomorrow will be a great day

Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B · Upcoming release · Hugging Face

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The countdown to Qwen3.8-27B starts now!

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Qwen 3.8 Max Is One Of The Best Models And Its Cheap
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Qwen 3.8 Max Is One Of The Best Models And Its Cheap

by Caspar Bannink - AI Engineer — Alibaba recently released Qwen 3.8 max and its good, really good, and it only costs $2 input and $6 output, the AI Price wars continue..

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Qwen 3.8-27B goes openweight in 2 days

Article URL: https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49272534 Points: 19 # Comments: 22

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Qwen 3.8-27b coming this week

Confirmed by the official Qwen account.

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is Qwen 3.8?

Qwen 3.8 is Alibaba Cloud's latest Qwen 3-series flagship LLM, the successor to Qwen 3.7 with improved reasoning, coding and agentic capabilities.

Where can I access Qwen 3.8?

Qwen 3.8 is available at https://chat.qwen.ai. It's developed by Alibaba Cloud.

What is the latest news about Qwen 3.8?

As of today, there are 87 recent stories about Qwen 3.8. Recent headlines include: A preliminary Qwen3.8-27B model card is live!; Three Out of Every Four Layers Have No KV Cache at All; Kimi K3 vs Qwen 3.8: Which Open Weight Chinese AI is Better?. Updated every 15 minutes.

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