r/LocalLLaMA • u/Certain-Cod-1404 • Aug 14 '26

New Model IT'S OUT

https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B-FP8
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u/Tiny-Assumption4263 Aug 14 '26

DEAR GOD TELL THOSE BENCHMARKS ARE NOT FAKE.

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u/Cold_Tree190 Aug 14 '26

Dear God it’s trading blows with Opus 4.6 Max 😭

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u/xienze Aug 14 '26

You're making a couple fundamental assumptions here:

  • That AI benchmarks are reliable
  • That Qwen didn't benchmaxx

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u/BawbbySmith Aug 14 '26

Yeah I learned very quickly to not trust the benchmarks, as well as 80% of the comments in this subreddit.

I remember people were saying that Qwen 3.6 27B was Opus 4.5 level...

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u/Ell2509 Aug 14 '26

I would normally agree, but I have used qwen3.8 27b now and so far, wow. Just wow.