Bro wtf, Qwen Lab cooked with Qwen 3.8 27B, it's so fucking good

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Summary

Qwen Lab has released Qwen 3.8 27B, which shows significant improvement over previous versions like Qwen 3.6 27B and other open-source models. The author hopes that Qwen publishes papers to help other labs develop similar high-quality small models.

Context: Earlier, open-source large models like Mimo V2.5 Pro, DeepSeek V4 Pro (first version), and Kimi K2.5 used to struggle with this prompt, and Qwen 3.6 27B couldn't even render the globe properly. But now, Qwen 3.8 27B is so much better than the previous model. I hope qwen publishes some papers that may help other labs to create such good small models.
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