Alibaba open-sources Qwen 3.8, and the Qianwen large model has been downloaded over 3 billion times globally.

On the evening of August 14, Alibaba Qianwen officially open-sourced the Qwen 3.8 series models, which can be freely downloaded, deployed, and used by all developers, research institutions, and enterprises. The newly open-sourced Qwen 3.8-27B is a native multimodal dense model with only 27 billion parameters, and it generally outperforms Qwen 3.7-Plus, demonstrating excellent performance in real-world programming and office scenarios. The new model is characterized by fast response times, high completion quality, and convenient deployment, running smoothly on "consumer-grade" graphics cards after quantization. It is the most anticipated open-source model in the global AI community. Qwen 3.8-27B is open-sourced under the permissive Apache 2.0 license and is expected to become a key model for local deployment.