Qwen 3.8 27B shows strong performance but tends to overthink tasks, according to its self-reported benchmarks and related coverage.
Read the original at simonwillison.net→Friday's big release was Qwen 3.8 27B, an Apache 2 licensed 27B parameter vision-capable LLM from Alibaba's Qwen research lab. I've been looking forward to this one: 27B is an excellent size for running a model on a...
Original headline: "Qwen 3.8 27B is excellent, but it defaults to wildly overthinking things"
Coverage timeline
- Aug 14, 10:38 UTC r/LocalLLaMA Qwen 3.8 Max Is Extremely Good at Knowing What Not to Build
- Aug 15, 18:29 UTC r/LocalLLaMA Qwen 3.8 27B - Isn’t Slower — It’s Thinking More, and That’s Necessary
- Aug 16, 22:00 UTC Simon Willison lead source Qwen 3.8 27B is excellent, but it defaults to wildly overthinking things