Alibaba · Qwen Medium line · lightweight · open weights
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
Qwen3.8-27B is the current model in this line. The card shows how long it has been since the last release against the line's usual gap and its recent ones — the rhythm, not a date.
Newest first. See the full line with every card →
One email a week: what AI models shipped, the actual differences vs the previous version, and what's coming next. No filler.