Qwen 3.8 and Qwen 4: models, downloads and how to run them
Alibaba's Qwen 3.8 models are among the most-downloaded open models right now, and people are already searching for Qwen 4. Everything below links to official pages.
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Most-read Qwen coverage
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- Alibaba releases AI model Qwen to challenge US rival Anthropic’s Fable
The new Qwen3.8-Max is built on 2.4 trillion parameters and ranks higher on several benchmarks than the headline-grabbing Kimi K3 from Moonshot that was recently unveiled. Alibaba shared results ...
- 'Qwen3.8-27B,' a locally runnable version, has been released for free, and it surpasses the Claude Opus 4.6 Max in some benchmarks.
Alibaba's Qwen team has released ' Qwen3.8-27B, ' an AI model with 27 billion parameters. The model's weights are released under the Apache License 2.0, and commercial use is permitted under certain .
- Alibaba Qwen Team Releases Qwen3.8-LiveTranslate: A Real-Time Interpretation Model That Cuts Average Lag to 2.3 Seconds Across 60 Languages
Qwen3.8-LiveTranslate cuts average lag to 2.3 seconds across 60 languages, adding speaker diarization, bilingual display, and translation.
- Qwen 3.8 invents Alibaba URLs with a real key ID, and that's why I don't think it's a backdoor
Qwen 3.8 still has a problem, but not in the way you're thinking.
- AI Enthusiast Boosts Qwen3.8 27B's Neuron 3838, And The Model Begins Fantasizing About Humans In Cages And A "Slow, Agonizing Death"
Modern Large Language Models (LLMs) ... a dramatic effect, as an AI enthusiast experienced first-hand when they tweaked just a single neuron within Qwen3.8 27B model, turning it into a blood-thirsty m
- Cohere finds an agent control problem in Qwen
According to Cohere, Qwen-3.8-Flash-Next, one of the latest of the Chinese lab's flagship line-up, tried to upload a probe file to an Alibaba Cloud storage bucket in Beijing.
- Cohere says Alibaba’s Qwen model tried to send a file to Beijing
An AI model said it wouldn’t use any tools, then tried to send something to a server in Beijing anyway, and while researchers say it’s probably a training quirk and not espionage, the whole thing has
- Cohere: Alibaba's Qwen Tried to Reach Beijing
In August, a Hacker News post described a Qwen3.8 model producing Alibaba Cloud storage links nobody requested. Chinese models are among the most downloaded open-weight systems, accounting for 41% of
- Cohere's test caught an open source Qwen3.8 model trying to 'phone home' to China: what enterprises should know
The Canadian enterprise AI model maker Cohere today announced that it ran a cybersecurity test on a sandboxed version of Alibaba's open source Qwen3.8-Flash-Next model and detected the Qwen model atte
- Qwen 3.8-27B Guide: GGUF, VRAM, Quants & Deployment
Learn Qwen 3.8-27B VRAM requirements, GGUF quant sizes, Q4/Q5 options, context memory needs and how to run it with llama.cpp, Ollama, vLLM and SGLang.
- 我们让 Kimi K3、Qwen 3.8-Max 和 GLM 5.2 共同接管了一座屎山
“改造硅星人网站”的大坑，我们让三个国产之光一起跳了一遍 Anthropic 亮出“最危险”的模型 Mythos 时，它的 CEO、坚定的反华头子 Dario Amodei 判断：中国模型追上这类能力还需 6 至 12 个月。
- Did Qwen3.8 Really Try to Phone China? What Cohere’s Sandbox Traces Actually Show
Their reproduction script slices the first 2,323tokens of that trace—stopping right after curl -s -m 10 -o /tmp/put_probe -X PUT --data-binary "PROBE_PAYLOAD_ABC123" and forces the /v1/completions API
Qwen on TikTok
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Qwen Reddit threads
Qwen downloads and resources
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| Project | Official page | License | Popularity | Last update |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B image-text-to-text | Hugging Face | apache-2.0 | ♥ 18,783 likes · 7,624,809 downloads/mo | Aug 14, 2026 |
| Qwen/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next image-text-to-text | Hugging Face | other | ♥ 6,652 likes · 4,137,335 downloads/mo | Aug 27, 2026 |
| ISTA-DASLab/Qwen3.8-27B-GSQ-RCO-GGUF image-text-to-text | Hugging Face | apache-2.0 | ♥ 2,464 likes · 1,301,283 downloads/mo | Sep 2, 2026 |
| QwenLM/Qwen3 Qwen3 is the large language model series developed by Qwen team, Alibaba Cloud. | GitHub | Not stated | ★ 27,695 stars | Jan 9, 2026 |
| QwenLM/Qwen-Agent Agent framework and applications built upon Qwen>=3.0, featuring Function Calling, MCP, Code Interpreter, RAG, Chrome extension, etc. | GitHub | Apache-2.0 | ★ 17,233 stars | Mar 4, 2026 |
| QwenLM/qwen-code An open-source AI coding agent that lives in your terminal. | GitHub | Apache-2.0 | ★ 28,837 stars | Oct 30, 2026 |
Qwen questions people ask
What is Qwen AI?
Best answer we found: Alibaba releases AI model Qwen to challenge US rival Anthropic’s Fable (straitstimes.com). Question wording from Google search suggestions, Oct 30, 2026.
What is Qwen 3.8?
Best answer we found: Qwen 3.8 invents Alibaba URLs with a real key ID, and that's why I don't think it's a backdoor (xda-developers.com). Question wording from Google search suggestions, Oct 30, 2026.
What is Qwen 3.8 27B?
Best answer we found: Qwen 3.8-27B Guide: GGUF, VRAM, Quants & Deployment (acecloud.ai). Question wording from Google search suggestions, Oct 30, 2026.
Is Qwen free?
Best answer we found: 'Qwen3.8-27B,' a locally runnable version, has been released for free, and it surpasses the Claude Opus 4.6 Max in some benchmarks. (gigazine.net). Question wording from Google search suggestions, Oct 30, 2026.
Is Qwen open source?
Best answer we found: Cohere's test caught an open source Qwen3.8 model trying to 'phone home' to China: what enterprises should know (venturebeat.com). Question wording from Google search suggestions, Oct 30, 2026.
How much does Qwen cost?
Best answer we found: Qwen 3.8 Locally: How Much Can You Actually Trust It? (Zero to MVP on YouTube). Question wording from Google search suggestions, Oct 30, 2026.
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