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AlibabaQwenOpen SourceModelsAlibaba Releases Qwen 3.8 27B with Vision and 262K Context under Apache 2.0
August 15, 20262 min read
Alibaba’s Qwen team released Qwen 3.8 27B, a multimodal model with integrated vision, 262K native context (extensible to 1M), and an Apache 2.0 license.
Why it matters
A strong open multimodal model with long context strengthens the open-weight ecosystem and gives developers a capable free alternative for agent and vision tasks.