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Alibaba's Qwen team releases Qwen 3.8 open-weight models

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Alibaba's AI team, Qwen, has released new open-weight models named Qwen 3.8. This 27-billion-parameter model is designed to surpass Qwen 3.7 Plus in coding and office-related tasks. It also supports a context window of up to 262,000 tokens, making it suitable for developers creating local and agent-based applications. AI

IMPACT This release provides developers with an open-weight model capable of handling large contexts and excelling in coding and office tasks.

RANK_REASON Frontier-lab model release with open weights and system card. [lever_c_demoted from frontier_release: ic=1 ai=1.0]

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Alibaba's Qwen team releases Qwen 3.8 open-weight models

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  1. The Decoder TIER_1 English(EN) · Matthias Bastian ·

    Alibaba's Qwen team releases Qwen 3.8 models with open weights under the Apache 2.0 license

    <p><img alt="" class="attachment-full size-full wp-post-image" height="1152" src="https://the-decoder.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/qwen_logo-2.png" style="height: auto; margin-bottom: 10px;" width="2048" /></p> <p> Alibaba's AI team Qwen has released new open model weights unde…

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