Qwen Confirms Qwen3.8-27B Open Weights Are Coming This Week — the Day's Biggest r/LocalLLaMA Post at 1,291 Upvotes
r/LocalLLaMA (1,291up/141c), citing the official Qwen account·medium signal
The official Qwen account confirmed that Qwen3.8-27B ships this week, making it the top r/LocalLLaMA post of the day (1,291 upvotes / 141 comments). The 27B is the checkpoint that matters for self-hosters: Alibaba announced it alongside the 2.4-trillion-parameter Qwen3.8-Max MoE on August 3 and committed to open weights for both within about a week, and 27B is the size that fits ordinary on-prem GPU hardware rather than a rack. As of August 11 the weights had not yet landed on Hugging Face, so the community is in a watch-and-wait posture with the stated window closing this week.