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Qwen 3.8 27B is excellent, but it defaults to overthinking things
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The Qwen 3.8 27B model is a powerful new open-weights LLM from Alibaba that excels at reasoning but defaults to an overly cautious 'thinking' mode. The author notes that while the model is highly capable, its default settings can consume excessive context and compute resources.
Friday’s big release was Qwen 3.8 27B , an Apache 2 licensed 27B parameter vision-capable LLM from Alibaba’s Qwen research lab. I’ve been looking forward to this one: 27B is an excellent size for running a model on a reasonably specced laptop, and its predecessor Qwen 3.6 27B was impressive.
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