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Alibaba schedules Qwen3.8-27B open-weight release for August 14th

Alibaba's Qwen team set August 14th for a 27B dense vision-language model, but the supplied materials do not confirm when downloadable weights will appear.

By RuntimeWire Staff · Published Aug 14th, 2026, 8:43am CT

Alibaba's Qwen team set August 14th for a 27B dense vision-language model, but the supplied materials do not confirm when downloadable weights will appear.

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