Qwen3.8-Max announced with open weights for Max and 27B

Melvin Vivas · X post · 2026-08-03 · Open on X

Topics: Industry Trends & Job Market, LLM Fundamentals · Level: beginner

Summary

The creator shares Qwen's announcement of Qwen3.8-Max, its most capable model so far, with 2.4T parameters aimed at coding and cowork. The open weights of Qwen3.8-Max and Qwen3.8-27B are due the following week. The creator is waiting for the 27B to run locally.

Key points

• Qwen3.8-Max has 2.4T parameters and targets coding and cowork tasks.
• The announcement lists autonomous coding as a highlight (the quoted text is cut off at '10+ days of').
• Open weights for Qwen3.8-Max are due the following week.
• Qwen3.8-27B is also going open-weights, which makes it suitable for running locally.

Resources mentioned

• Qwen3.8 · tool · qwen.ai · free
  Upcoming large Qwen model (2.4T parameters) that Qwen says will be released with open weights.
  Also in: SGLang v0.5.19 release: new models and beam search (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Qwen3.8-Max on the Frontend Code Arena cost-performance frontier (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Qwen3.8 (2.4T params) Announced as Upcoming Open-Weight Model (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Qwen3.8 Open-Weight Launch Announcement Reaction (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Qwen3.8-27B · tool · huggingface.co · free
  A 27B-parameter open-weight model from Alibaba's Qwen family that you can run locally or call through hosted APIs.
  Also in: Deploying Qwen3.8 27B on Hugging Face Inference Endpoints (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Using Hugging Face credits: Jobs, Inference Endpoints and Open Models (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Running Qwen3.8-27B Locally on an M5 Max MacBook with Inco Splash (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Ternary Bonsai 2 27B: 9x smaller model keeping 98.2% of benchmark scores (Melvin Vivas on X · notes) and 24 more