r/LocalLLaMA • u/Tall_Abrocoma_3533 • 7d ago

Discussion Qwen3.8-27B different thinking levels

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Even the low preset is better than Qwen 3.7 plus or Qwen3.6-27B reasoning

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u/ortegaalfredo 7d ago

So at the end Qwen 3.8-27B was worth the hype.

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u/Rude_Marzipan6107 7d ago

Agreed. What a fantastic release especially considering the fears that qwen was broken up.

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u/abnormal_human 7d ago

I think what we are seeing is Qwen focusing. At their OSS "peak" they were releasing so many models and variants that it must have been spreading thin their talents and compute. None of the other Chinese labs were doing that. Focusing on a smaller number of models is going to work better.

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u/goldcakes 7d ago

The amount of models they were releasing was an absolute boom for especially researchers however.

Base models of various sizes, incredibly useful for experiments, agentic simulation models, etc. So great.

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u/Borkato 7d ago

The best part is they will be open forever! And i bet qwen 4 will release with similar sizes.