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Qwen3.8-Max: A New Bar for Coding and Cowork
https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen3.8what others said
- Hacker News 1097 points · 598 comments
Commenters confirmed Qwen3.8-Max will release open weights next week, shifting focus from the API-only Max-class to the locally runnable Qwen3.8-27B model, which is compared favorably against Qwen3.6-27B. Users expressed hope that the new reasoning_effort feature would offer pricing competitive with DeepSeek’s nearly free tier and noted the model's ability to support self-evolution via feedback loops. Skepticism surrounded the marketing claims of autonomous coding success relative to Anthropic, while one user observed that the page’s SPA skeleton spinners caused loading issues.
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- Qwen on X: "📢Meet Qwen3.8-Max — our most capable model to date. Next week, the open weights of Qwen3.8-Max will be released, and Qwen3.8-27B is also going open-weights to meet you all!🎉 Qwen3.8-Max, a new bar for coding and cowork at 2.4T parameters: - Autonomous coding: 10+ days of self-evolving development, from empty folder to production without hand-holding, complete project trace in the GitHub：https://t.co/iVHZWQoeSo - Real work, real results: Production-quality deliverables across hundreds o
- [AINews] Qwen 3.8 Max(2.4T) and 27B, new open weights models for Coding and Cowork
- Qwen3.8-Max: A New Bar for Coding and Cowork | alphaXiv