A translator reports Qwen 3.8 27B beating GPT-5.6 and Fable 5 on German
r/LocalLLaMA·low signal
Someone doing production translation work across multiple languages says Qwen 3.8 27B's German is well ahead of both GPT-5.6 and Fable 5, which is notable because it is a 27B open model outperforming frontier closed models on a task where the frontier models usually win by default. This is a single practitioner's qualitative report with no benchmark attached, so it is worth treating as a hypothesis to test rather than a result, but it points at a specific and testable claim: non-English fluency may be where small open models have already caught up.