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Qwen Medium

Alibaba · lightweight line · open weights

2 releases since 2026Latest: Qwen3.8-27B

Where the line stands

How long it has been since the last release against the line's usual gap and its recent ones — the rhythm, not a date.

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Qwen3.8-27B

Alibaba · Qwen Medium line · lightweight · open weights
Just releasedreleased 26 days ago — usual gap is ~171

Alibaba's open 27B model, now multimodal: big gains on computer use, coding and instruction following over Qwen3.6-27B — still free to download under Apache 2.0.

Released Aug 14, 2026 · what changed →
Days since last release
Qwen3.8-27B · Aug 14, 2026
26
days
Usual gap
171
days
Recent gaps
Qwen3.8-27B · Aug 2026
171

Every Qwen Medium release

Newest first — what each version changed versus the one before, in Alibaba's own numbers.

Aug
14
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Alibaba's open 27B model, now multimodal: big gains on computer use, coding and instruction following over Qwen3.6-27B — still free to download under Apache 2.0.

Compared with Qwen3.6-27B · the model it replaces

Operates a computer on its own far more reliably

OSWorld-Verified — completing real tasks inside a desktop OS

84.3%

up from 63.9% · +20 points

Solves 6 in 10 hard real-world coding tasks

SWE-bench Pro — fixing real bugs in real software projects

61.7%

up from 53.5% · +8 points

Free to download and run

License — open weights, commercial use allowed

Apache 2.0

same license as Qwen3.6-27B

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