The newest Qwen Medium model is Qwen3.8-27B, released on August 14, 2026. The line's usual gap is about 86 days and 71 have passed, so it is mid-cycle.
How long it has been since the last release against the line's usual gap and its recent ones — the rhythm, not a date.
Latest: Qwen3.8-27B · Aug 14, 2026
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Newest first — what each version changed versus the one before, in Alibaba's own numbers.
Alibaba's open 27B model scores 84.3% on OSWorld-Verified, up from 63.9% for Qwen3.6-27B, and stays 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 (Alibaba's corrected task set) — 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
An open 27B dense model in Alibaba's Qwen3.6 family, released six days after Qwen3.6-35B-A3B, under Apache 2.0 with a 262K native context extensible to 1M.
Alibaba's open mixture-of-experts model activates 3 billion of its 35 billion parameters and scores 51.5% on Terminal-Bench 2.0, up from 40.5% for Qwen3.5-35B-A3B; it is licensed under Apache 2.0.
Compared with Qwen 3.5 Medium · the model it replaces
Fixes nearly 3 in 4 real software bugs
SWE-bench Verified — fixing real bugs in real software projects, run with Qwen's own agent setup
73.4%
▲ up from 70.0% for Qwen3.5-35B-A3B · +3.4 points