Qwen 3.8 27b is like Opus 4.6 on your machine

Reddit r/LocalLLaMA Models

Summary

The article discusses the release of Qwen 3.8 27b, a 27 billion parameter AI model that reportedly performs comparably to larger models like Opus 4.6, raising questions about the future of AI subscriptions and local AI efficiency.

This seems crazy if real. a 27b model challenging frontier and 300b+ models. Am I reading this right? It feels strongly as if by EOY less people will be paying for AI subscriptions, when everything can be done locally well enough. What are your thoughts? Are apple and nvidia the winners here? Has anyone tried it already? I'm just tinkering with ollama and it's good, not like sol obviously, but good enough for most tasks. source: AI Leaderboard
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