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Alibaba releases Qwen 3.8 open-weights model
The Decoder Alibaba's Qwen team releases Qwen 3.8 models with open weights under the Apache 2.0 license
Alibaba's Qwen team released a 27-billion-parameter dense model under the Apache 2.0 license that natively processes up to 262,000 tokens.
Why it matters
Developers get access to a highly capable, open-license model that excels at coding and office tasks with a massive context window.
Latest brief · Aug 14, 2026